damnnnn what is society coming to! [news]
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/4132432.stm


HIV schoolgirl, 15, gives birth
HIV cells
The disease was detected during a routine ante-natal clinic check
A 15-year-old schoolgirl who only found she had HIV when she became pregnant has given birth at a hospital in Swansea, it has emerged.

The girl, who has not been named, had no idea she had the disease until she was screened at an ante-natal clinic.

Doctors were able to treat her and the baby has so far tested negative but needs another test in three months.

Campaigners said the case highlighted a growing HIV problem among heterosexuals in Wales, especially the young.

The new mother, thought to have had only two sexual partners, was infected by an older man who was also the baby's father.


The sad thing is that there are still people who know they are at risk and refuse to accept it and get tested
Kathir Yoganathan, HIV consultant

Swansea's Singleton Hospital, in common with many throughout the UK, routinely offers the test to all pregnant women who give birth there.

HIV consultant Kathir Yoganathan, said the girl's case was "shocking".

He added: "If she hadn't become pregnant she would not have known that she was HIV positive. In young people it takes 10 to 15 years before symptoms appear.

"If we know that a woman is HIV positive before the baby is born there is a very high chance - 99% - that the child will be OK."

The girl was given retro-viral drugs, advised not to breast feed and the baby was delivered by caesarean section.

Of the young mother, Mr Yoganathan said: "She may not need treatment for some time yet.

"HIV is a terrible disease, one which needs life-long treatment, but people can live a normal life span.

Singleton Hospital
The baby was born at Singleton Hospital in Swansea

"The sad thing is that there are still people who know they are at risk and refuse to accept it and get tested."

Heterosexual issue

Lynda Bevan, of the Swansea based Aids Cymru Trust, said more needed to be done in Wales to highlight the risks of contracting HIV.

"I'm not surprised that 15-year-olds are in danger of contacting the virus because the communities at large in Wales are not aware of the dangers surrounding unprotected sex," she said.

"People think that someone else is going to get it and not them. Anyone and everyone can catch the HIV virus.

"It is no longer a gay issue. It's a heterosexual issue.

"This young girl has been fortunate really that it's been found out so soon."

Sexual health charity The Terrence Higgins Trust said infection rates for the virus, which can lead to Aids, has risen 45% in two years in Wales.

It released figures late last year showing there were 575 new cases in Wales in 2003 compared to 398 in 2001.

Dr Yoganathan said that last year he had seen 32 new HIV patients at his clinic in Swansea, but there had been 36 new cases so far this year.

I am attempting to merge your thread title with the post. Honestly I can not. People do get pregnant and people do get aids. Is it the fact she was 14-15 when she got knocked up and or infected that caused the society topic?

hm on second analysis your right :) i shouldnt attribute the happenings in the article to poor society. i was just shocked and saddened to learn that girls of 14 were catching hiv.

hiv is not going anywhere,you just dont hear about as much until something like this comes up

"Sexual health charity The Terrence Higgins Trust said infection rates for the virus, which can lead to Aids, has risen 45% in two years in Wales."

Wow

I'd be curious to know what kind of intravenous drug usage patterns they're showing in Wales lately. IV use and HIV infection have very close correlations.

I read that most of the people all over the world getting Aids now are heterosexual women, and guess why that is....

It's because their husbands fuck hookers without condoms and then contract hiv and give it to their wives. sometimes when the husbands get it and know they have it they still have unprotected sex with their wives anyways.

So if you are a cheater and like to fuck hoes, just remember you might be potentially killing your partner. But of course you don't care about that because you are a hot-blooded male and must get different pussy every night.

Just something to think about when browsing threads on gfy with titles like "I went whoring in Brazil" and "Pics inside of this whore I just fucked, look at meeeeeeeeeeeeh!"

This time I'm happy to say that I'm not pointing my finger to the government.

Somebody must find a cure soon.........


Theres too many billions of $$$ waiting to be made!