Two HIV-positive children recorded in 8 months 2007

2 children infected with HIV/AIDS have been recorded in the first 8 months of this year in Moldova. A total of 35 children are recorded to have been infected with the virus throughout the country. In 2006 no deaths among the children suffering from HIV/AIDS have been recorded. According to the Ministry of Health, out of the total number of children infected with HIV, 33 of them have been born with it (from their mothers), whereas 2 were infected through the consumption of drugs. 18 of the children are treated free of charge, each with an individual antiretroviral treatment, based on the clinical and immunological indications prescribed by the National Skin-Venereal Dispensary. Infants younger than 1 year, born by HIV infected mothers, are ensured with adaptive aliments free of charge. Experts say that this treatment consists of administering antiretroviral medicines, which leads to an improvement in the patients’ health, life and prolong their hope. Each patient must receive such a treatment during his whole life, without any stops, under careful supervision of doctors. The efficiency of the ARV treatment depends on the patient’s responsibility for his own health, whereas stopping the treatment may lead to developing a resistance to these medicines. In Moldova, the ARV treatment was implemented in 2003 and is free of charge for all the citizens. AIDS is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in humans. AIDS affects especially the young population, sexually active, and can also be transmitted from mother to child during the delivery process or after it through breastfeeding. The fatal developments of all AIDS patients, despite the modern sophisticated therapies, along with the syndrome’s expansion to children are worrying factors that generate a fear psychosis towards this disease of the 20th-21st centuries.