Hi there<\/p>\n
HIV treatment is now very good.<\/p>\n
This means that with early diagnosis and treatment it is now very common for children to lead long and normal lives.<\/p>\n
The greatest risk is in the first year of life, which is why early diagnosis and treatment is so important. If children are able to cope with the first year of treatment, then the outlook is very good.<\/p>\n
Both PENTA [Paediatric European Network for the treatment of AIDS] and WHO [World Health Organisation] guidelines recommend starting ART [antiretroviral treatment]\u00a0 for all infants with HIV below the age of 12 months. The USA guidelines recommend ART for all infants. For more information on guidelines for treating babies and children, please follow these links to the European<\/a>, WHO<\/a> and USA<\/a> guidelines.<\/p>\n The good news is that in the UK, with access to and good use of treatment, care and support, many children born with HIV are now in their mid to late 20s.<\/p>\n Many of these young people are either in college, working or starting families of their own.<\/p>\n This answer was updated in 2024 from a question first posted in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the life expectancy of an HIV positive child?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children","category-life-expectancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24046,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions\/24046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}