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Day highlights rising HIV in women
By Sun Xiaohua (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-11 05:29
Currently, most of those females infected are of child-bearing age. If the
epidemic among this group does not receive timely prevention and control, more
babies will be infected, resulting in another new problem, said a document
released by the Ministry of Health, National Population and Family Planning
Commission and All-China Women's Federation.
In Shenzhen, a southern coastal city playing a leading role in HIV/AIDS
prevention and control in China, 10 pregnant women were diagnosed with the virus
in the first half of 2005.
"The number is bigger than last year, when 14 HIV/AIDS infected mothers were
diagnosed during the whole year here," said Feng Tiejian, deputy director of the
AIDS Prevention and Control Department under Shenzhen's Centre for Disease
Control and Prevention.
When a pregnant woman tests positive, the centre will suggest she has an
abortion. But if they insist on going ahead with the pregnancy, they will
receive treatment to protect the unborn child from being infected, including
medication for the mother and delivery by caesarean section.
Up until now, more than 40 infected pregnant women have given birth to
healthy babies under the treatment regime in Shenzhen.
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