just normal people.”
“Aww, you don’t have to cry,” Johnson replied, “because we are normal people. OK? We are.”
That scene was captured as part of a Nickelodeon AIDS special 20 years ago to inform America’s youth that the disease could affect anyone.
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HIV And Pregnancy: A Brief History And Where We Are Today
It appears as if the first reported case of HIV being transmitted from a mother to a child was in 1985 when a Hemophiliac (person with a blood clotting disorder) infected his wife, who passed the infection to the infant. Since this early report, millions of babies have been born infected, and millions have died. But the improvements over the decades have been dramatic!
How often is HIV transmitted from mother to baby and how does this