{"id":254,"date":"2016-01-01T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/ttfa\/?page_id=254"},"modified":"2016-03-04T14:07:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:07:47","slug":"13-when-baby-is-born","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/6-hiv-and-pregnancy\/13-when-baby-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"6.13 When baby is born"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"diagnosis\">The baby&#8217;s diagnosis<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Babies born to HIV positive mothers will always have an initial\u00a0HIV positive result using an HIV antibody test.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is normal and does not mean the baby has HIV. A baby shares the mother\u2019s immune responses that the antibody test looks for. It sometimes takes up to 18 months for these responses to gradually disappear. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The baby will be tested using an HIV PCR DNA or RNA test. These tests look for virus in the baby\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HIV PCR DNA is a highly sensitive test that detects tiny amounts of HIV DNA in blood plasma. PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction.<\/li>\n<li>HIV PCR RNA is similar to the HIV DNA test and the same test is used to measure viral load.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tests will amplify or multiply the HIV DNA or RNA in the test tube so that it can be more easily detected.<\/p>\n<p>It is <strong>good practice<\/strong> to test babies the day they are born, and at 6 weeks and 3 months old.<\/p>\n<p>If tests show the baby no longer has the mother\u2019s antibodies to HIV when he or she is 18 months old, this is called <strong>seroreversion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If all these tests are negative, and the mother is not breast-feeding the baby, then the baby is not HIV-positive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The baby\u2019s HIV drugs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A baby will need to take HIV drugs for the first four to six weeks of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is most likely to be <strong>AZT<\/strong>, which must be taken twice a day.<\/p>\n<p>In a few cases a baby may be given another drug or combination of drugs.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baby&#8217;s diagnosis Babies born to HIV positive mothers will always have an initial\u00a0HIV positive result using an HIV antibody test. This is normal and does not mean the baby has HIV. A baby shares the mother\u2019s immune responses that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":224,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-254","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}