How do women with HIV or AIDS delivery a baby without infect blood infecting the baby ?

I have seen on t.v. that women with HIV or AIDS can take meds to prevent they baby from developing the virus in the whomb , that was a really amazing shocker to me that i probably will never understand , What is really burning my mind is how do they deliver the baby with out infecting it , okaya it seems like vaginal birth or via c-section the baby would get infected bodily fluids and blood from the mother infected them as being born, how the hell do they deliever with out infecting the baby ??????????

vaginal theres less of a chance of infection that way

That is the first time I hear that it is possible

I saw this show on Discovery or TLC in which an HIV positive mother had a "bloodless" C-section. The doctor cauterized the inscision as he was making the cut in her abdomen to minimize mother's blood touching the infant.

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An HIV or AIDS infected woman cannot deliver a baby witout the infection, this is just not possible.

the blood does contain the disease, but sometimes the baby ends up just being a carrier, not a host. If the baby was to grow up and met a partner that is a host, it can then become infected if they become intimate. carriers usually test negative because the disease is not active in their body, while hosts test positive because their blood was infected from birth (with babies)

I haven't heard of that. I thought if you had the disease it would automatically be in your baby.

But here's some good news I just read and wanted to pass on:

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鈥極n-Off Switch鈥?for HIV Found

Even though there is still no cure for HIV, scientists at Princeton University think a genetic 鈥渙n-off switch鈥?may be able to inactivate the virus indefinitely. Scientists Leor Weinberger and Thomas Shenk have found a specific genetic trigger that sends HIV into its latent phase, hiding and hibernating until another trigger awakens it and allows it to re-emerge and wreck havoc throughout the body.

Weinberger and Shenk studied how TAT, an HIV protein, contributes to starting and interrupting a surge of chemical reactions that leads to full-blown infection. Using previous research of their own and that of others, they theorize that the TAT protein and the chemicals that change it serve as a kind of 鈥渞esistor,鈥?working in a way similar to resistors used to slow or reduce the flow of electrical current. The TAT resistor causes HIV to enter its latent phase, and the scientists believe that understanding how to activate it to interrupt the series of reactions that lead to viral infection could have wide-ranging effects.

鈥淚 believe we鈥檝e uncovered an important component of the biological switch,鈥?said Weinberger. 鈥淚f we can figure out how such resistors affect viruses, it might lead to a whole new class of drugs than can treat some of the world鈥檚 most dangerous illnesses.鈥?/div>

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