The Baby, The Hope

There are more than 30 million people around the world have died of AIDS-related diseases. In 2010, 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV, and 1.8 million men, women and children died of AIDS-related causes, 34 million people around the world are now living with HIV. In most parts of the world we have seen a reduction in new HIV infections among young people, latest data show that a 50% reduction in the rate of new HIV infections (HIV incidence) has been achieved in 25 low- and middle-income countries between 2001 and 2011.

According to "US HIV Baby 'Cured' by Early Drug Treatment", a baby girl has been cured of HIV in the US, the baby has been cured after very early treatment with standard drug therapy. Many doctors in six different laboratories all applied different, very sophisticated tests trying to find HIV in this infant and nobody was able to find any.

I love movies, no matter how does it end happily or not. The movie I would like to talk about is a scene from the Spike Lee-directed segment about children living with HIV/AIDS from the film which is supporting by the UNICEF. Lee’s segment, entitled ‘Jesus Children of America’, is about a Brooklyn teenager with drug-addicted parents who discovers she is HIV-positive. She is suffering the dilemma of her family who try to cover up the condition and a standpoint of her life. In the end of this film, she finally accepted and must carrying a HIV-positive label all her life and try to start a new life. The moral dilemma is always in the central issue of a movie, it can inspired me in the moment and thinking that what will I do if I was in the situation. In this case, I want talk about HIV/AIDS babies. Past few decades, people believes HIV/AIDS can not be cured. Some discriminate against them, others think about it's a hopeless case. Ignorant makes panic, guiltless makes bleeds, helpless makes suffering. Even though it is hopeless but it's not a plague, it only occurs in specific routes of infection. HIV is transmitted primarily via unprotected sexual intercourse, contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery, or breastfeeding. I do believe a life start out good, innocent and full of potential. An innocent HIV baby take no mistakes but will suffering from public and must endure others unusual judgment since diagnosis of HIV-positive.

There are more sad stories in Africa. It said 84% of the world's deaths from AIDS happened in Africa. There are 13.7 million Africans have died of AIDS. The social costs of AIDS in Africa is terrible and coverage causing serious problems. Meanwhile, I think there are lots of people talking about the problem of HIV/AIDS in Africa, but does not give resources to those exact place to whom is needed. Also, the African are still in the struggle if the government is lack of money and the drug companies charge too much money for it. Many of victims are children, mostly occurs while mother-to-child transmission. If the baby girl from the BBC News still ongoing follow-up the research and totally cured in the long run which means the treatment can also affects for other babies born in with HIV. It will be a really huge change and an opportunity for those babies who born in with HIV. We can decrease the social costs shifted to other issues we are also worry about. The most important is they can avoiding a lifetime of medication, a different way of thinking, more cherish their own life, and a hopeful future.

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Reference

Dollarhide M.(2012, May 26) UNICEF supports ‘All the Invisible Children’. UNICEF Retrieved March 7,2013 from http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/usa_28192.html

Global HIV and AIDS estimates,2009 and 2010. AVERTing HIV and AIDS (2011) Retrieved March 7,2013 from http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm

US HIV baby 'cured' by early drug treatment. BBC News Health (2013, March 4) Retrieved March 7,2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21651225