Have a baby – Extectation of PLHIV
Currently due to antiretroviral treatment and health care quality of life of PLHIV increasingly raised a baby and needs of couples with H is also increased. This is a needs and legitimate aspiration of PLHIV. There are couple knowledge, to meet with the doctors caring advice and support to apply measures to prevent transmission from mother to child should have the baby be born healthy. But there are also many people who can not support PLHIV childbirth and their advice (possibly not true) especially those with expertise have made many wonder H. Here are the stories have taken place with PLHIV in Ha Tinh.
Q and A who are all PLHIV, they have antiretroviral treatment, and now have good health, have stable economic life. With them the biggest dream is have a baby, their family support that. They decied find to Sun Flower Club – Vinh city – Nghe An to be consulted, the hope to be here to help, more power to make them wishes. After met doctor, he advice: “Now the mother have H, the rate of pregnancy from mother to child transmission about 30%, if the father also have H the rate up to 80%.. You are should not have chilredn because the risk of transmission from mother to child is very large, the suffering will last from generation to generation.” Advice from Sun Flower make them end of wish have children.
Q and A are have H. He is only son, so they and family always desire to have children. Although the people around not support that people living with HIV when have children will have more risk. However, before the aspiration and desire the family is exposed to some information on prevention of transmission from mother to child, they still determination have child. When she was pregnant the doctor advice, treament to child transmission prevention, they gave a healthy boy. Until nơ he was just 20 moths old. Small house of them have children’s warm voice, happiness and satisfaction. They said: “ We wanted have baby to burning. But desire is so much worry in pregnancy as well. Consulting from doctor but still not quiet fragrance. Now the child is healthy not equal happiness. We will live very well to care for baby growing up, maturing”
