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Believe it or not, many infections today consist of mother to child transfer of the HIV virus through the mother's breast milk and during the 9 months of pregnancy. CDC created AHP, Advanced HIV Prevention, a plan used to reduce the number of children who are infected with HIV from the mother (CDC). The idea was to have HIV testings for all pregnant women every so often throughout their months of pregnancy. Women that have an unknown HIV status upon the day of labor would be tested. The goal is to make sure that all women are tested for HIV early in their pregnancy, in hope of decreasing the risk of an infected child. Along with making HIV testing apart of medical care for all (CDC). With this plan, it would for sure help the decreasing of infections from mother to infants.

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Imagine you have the HIV virus, and the only way you can live is if you receive certain pediatric treatment. Only a small group of children per year receive this per year, so there's barely a possibility you could be chosen. How would you feel? The only thing that children have to keep themselves going when infected with this virus is a simple thing called hope. With more knowledge and advanced treatment, the number of kids that were given the acquired treatment went from 70,000 in 2005 to almost 200,000 in 2007 (WHO). You can definitely say that treatment has increased and advanced majorly. Although, knowledge in the medicine and how it is used, still has a long way to go before treatments becomes more accessible to the people living with HIV that live in poverty. PROVIDING

There are many ways that you can prevent the spread of the HIV virus was one to another. Abstinence is the only way you can 100% prevent the infection of the virus, that is abstinence from sexual activity and sharing needles. Although, abstinence may not be realistic for everyone, so some other ways are through the use of condoms, knowing your partner's sexual history, the HIV testing of your partner, and knowing even your own status on when you got tested for the HIV antibodies (Miller). These are the main ways you could prevent the spread of the virus, but another way is limiting your number of sexual partners. Oh and always to remember to keep up on your knowledge of the virus and share what you know with others. PREVENTING

Cash transfers is an effective way that many families that are very poor can receive support and protection, along with accessing the simple services needed to keep a healthy lifestyle. Social protection is another thing that is slowly becoming popular in third world countries. It is used to maintain health within the family, improve education, prevent discrimination with HIV infected children and adults, and help get families back on their feet when living in poverty and diseases (UNICEF). This form of protection, can also help protect girls and women against sexual violence, which majorly increases the risk of the HIV infection. By protecting many now, you could save alot of lives in the future. PROTECTING AND SUPPORTING

Many treatments that are available to people infected with the HIV virus are not a cure, but it can stop people from getting sick for a couple of years. The treatments are mainly used to keep the amount of the HIV in the body at a low level (Avert). The Antiretroviral Drug Treatment is given to patients to slow the weakening and breaking down of the immune system, allowing it to recover from the damage done to it from the HIV virus (Avert). Although, this kind of specific drug does show it works, without a faster reducing rate of the HIV virus, progressing in the developing of the treatment can not be reached. More people are becoming more aware of this large epidemic and are starting to have more caution when having sexual activity. Therefore, poverty stricken countries that have the worst infections of the virus, are slowly beginning to improve.

With the HIV epidemic slowly decreasing, the method of taking three or more anti-HIV drugs, is becoming popular with more and more patients. Doctors call it a Highly Active Antiretroviral Drug Therapy, also know as HAART (Avert). This type of method is proven to reduce the amount of the active virus in your body, and in fact lower the number of active viruses in your immune system all over (Cichocki). If one drug is taken at a time, the HIV would become more resistant to the drug, therefore not having an effect on the virus (Avert). Although, by taking more than one drug, there is a possibility that it would reduce the number of antibodies in your immune system, and reduce the chance of the HIV resisting against it. Overall, making the treatment more effective in the making the treatment more effective in the long run.