(RED) Ambassador and new mom, Gisele Bundchen, blogged for Huffington Post this World AIDS Day about working together to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015. Read her piece below:
Guest blog from Gisele Bundchen, Huffington Post, December 1st, 2011:
For the past five years, I have worked with (RED), spreading the word about the need to fund AIDS programs in developing countries. Today, more than 1,000 babies are born with HIV every day in the developing world. As a mother, this statistic really breaks my heart, especially when as many as 98% of these cases could be prevented through HIV screening of pregnant women, antiretroviral drug regimens for HIV+ pregnant women, treatment during and after labor, and education programs about infant feeding guidelines.
If we act now, we can help put these strategies into action and introduce the world to the first AIDS-free generation in nearly 30 years. This past World AIDS Day (December 1st), (RED) and its sister organization, ONE, highlighted the global health community's goal of virtually eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015.
Read the full blog here.
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I must say that screening of mother's prior to pregnancy really disgusts me as a preventative strategy. Wee babes are best alive, eh, Giselle? No doubt about that. Folks can live strong and healthy without displaying any symptoms at all for twenty years. Immune deficiencies happen for many other reasons, as well. Shall we screen out based on height or eye color? R we screening out based on race now? What happened to privacy with health care? No more confidentiality with medicine? Should we pin sickness badges on our coats, yet? Just so we all know WHO deserves what? Huffpost is a crime blog.
I must say that screening of mother's prior to pregnancy really disgusts me as a preventative strategy. Wee babes are best alive, eh, Giselle? No doubt about that. Folks can live strong and healthy without displaying any symptoms at all for twenty years. Immune deficiencies happen for many other reasons, as well. Shall we screen out based on height or eye color? R we screening out based on race now? What happened to privacy with health care? No more confidentiality with medicine? Should we pin sickness badges on our coats, yet? Just so we all know WHO deserves what?
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