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...generation of drugs began helping people with HIV/AIDS live longer and healthier lives, Kelli and Jim Hughes began to feel more hopeful about the future. During a visit to her doctor, Kelli tentatively broached the subject of having children and was stunned when she received a go-ahead. "We had adjusted to a marriage without kids," says Jim, who grew up with nine siblings and desperately wanted children. "When they said it was O.K., we were shocked because everything we'd heard up to that point was that we couldn't have children because they would be infected." Using home...
...Kelli's tale is no longer unusual. According to Dr. Marc Bulterys of the HIV/AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, advances in medicine have made childbearing much safer for the 6,000 to 7,000 HIV-infected women who give birth each year in the U.S. In the mid-1990s, treatments to prevent infant HIV infection were only 60% to 70% effective. Today, when a woman is identified as HIV positive before or very early in pregnancy and is treated appropriately, the risk of her baby's being infected is less than...
Getting pregnant without infecting a partner is the first obstacle for those women. Some, like Kelli Hughes, use artificial insemination, while others opt to have unprotected sex when their viral load--or measure of the virus in their bloodstream--is low. During the first trimester of pregnancy, the women take a break from any antiretroviral drugs they may have been taking so that the fetus is not exposed during this critical developmental window. But drug treatment is resumed or begun in the second trimester and continued through the end of the pregnancy. At the time of delivery...
Center for Health and Wellness Manager Kelli M. Bannager moderated, querying the candidates on topics posed by the Community Health Initiative. Though the candidates agreed on many central issues—like reducing student stress and creating more opportunities for responsible recreation—they presented different approaches to achieving these common goals...
Friedman and HSA Assisant Manager Tori A. Zelt ’06 hired wine expert Kelli A. White to design the syllabus and teach the course...