Infant turns HIV+ve after hospitalisation in Tamil Nadu

Coimbatore | Wednesday | 20th February, 2019

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They also say that the child last underwent a blood transfusion at CMCH in July last year, and it could have been the only source for the infection. The doctor then collected her blood samples and our blood samples, and told us only that our baby was HIV positive, said the father. The parents allege the child could have got the virus only from blood or a fluid transfusion. "I know that it can only come from a blood or fluid transfusion," he said. Born more than two months premature, the girl baby weighed just 700 gm, according to hospital records..