CGTN published this video item, entitled “Men of the people: Former hospital head spends 17 years caring for AIDS orphans” – below is their description.
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, is a fatal infectious disease without a cure. Many children are born with the disease, with it being transmitted from their infected mothers. These children often grow up alone and face discrimination, but one doctor in north China’s Shanxi Province quit his job to help, becoming a father to AIDS orphans. He is 58-year-old Guo Xiaoping, who was the head of the local infectious disease hospital in the city of Linfen. Seventeen years ago, he started helping children battling HIV. As a member of the Communist Party of China, he believes it’s his duty to help these kids.
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In This Story: HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive.
Without treatment, average survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype. In most cases, HIV is a sexually transmitted infection and occurs by contact with or transfer of blood, pre-ejaculate, semen, and vaginal fluids. Research has shown (for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples) that HIV is untransmittable through condomless sexual intercourse if the HIV-positive partner has a consistently undetectable viral load.
Non-sexual transmission can occur from an infected mother to her infant during pregnancy, during childbirth by exposure to her blood or vaginal fluid, and through breast milk. Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells.
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