"If you want to be green, joy is red, the sky is blue, then we heart color is gray." 23-year-old mother, CAO Li (pseudonym), described his daughter and 3-year-old state of existence.
"With the children should not be free riders. But if you do not fare evasion, I can not come to Changsha, the children receive free medicine." 1 year old flower (a pseudonym), the father said.
"I want Daddy, Daddy ... I want to ..." a week before he died, the 4-year-old strong (a pseudonym), skinny, eager to appear in the ward his father.
In the December 1 World AIDS Day approaching, we are particularly concerned about the three children. These children have a common identity "HIV". They are born to face the rough, almost brutal life. Hunan Province, according to CDC statistics, as of the end of October 2010, Hunan had reported the age of 14 HIV (AIDS virus) infected 102 people, AIDS (AIDS) 36, killed 27 people.
Fragment of a: I hope
"My hope is that her health"
Daughter Meiduo (a pseudonym) 2 at the age of a cold, check that the infection of HIV. Mother to child transmission, CAO Li has also been found infected with HIV. Found that every day is blue, but her heart is dead gray. CDC to get the results from the province, they are infected, the husband does not, into the underground passage, CAO Li and her husband embrace a full cry over an hour.
Infectious disease hospital in Changsha outpatient AIDS treatment area, the reporter saw Meiduo. 3 year old Mei Duo, scrub, very lively. CAO Li admitted that, fortunately, she has one pair of mother and daughter would never betray their husbands. Without the support of her husband, she is difficult to fight against "HIV" brought the shadow. However, CAO Li still live in fear, "felt very afraid, worried about a child's body, for fear she suddenly cold, afraid that she suddenly left. Also worried after she left, her husband or their family do not accept me, all my things will collapse. "
CAO Li courage to call and tell his father shortly before his illness. "In the future you will not be my daughter?" "Of course, it must, when you are my daughter." Listening to the words of his father, CAO Li cried for a long time.
Fragment II: Death
Call before his death, a taste of despair
"I want Daddy, Daddy ... I want to ..." Xiao Qiang was born, my mother died, he and his father had each other. HIV infection is also a father. Because his family was poor, and John was seriously ill when his father was sent to the Changsha City Hospital for Infectious Diseases AIDS treatment area, the father silence away, leaving only a note, "I'm gone, our lives difficult, I can not, to rely on your help to treat, first, thank you! "small strong calling his father every day, how can so not to be the father.
Changsha City Hospital for Infectious Diseases AIDS treatment, said Professor Wang Min District Leader, 4 year old child but he looks like kittens, growth retardation and thin. "Children of the anti-HIV drugs are free, but other complications of drug, not free." Professor Wang Min said. Hospital has been dedicated to the small strong care and treatment, but a month later, Johnny fragile life is going to die. The last two days of life, Johnny did his father came to the hospital. He said to the doctor: "I really have no way, can not get money, I am sorry you, thank you too!" Small strong to go, he cried like a child.
Fragment three: hard
No money, had to get free drugs for children fare evasion
Mr. Gao and his children are also HIV infected flowers, flower production 10 days after the mother died. Very bad economic conditions at home. In the hospital took a free anti-viral drugs, eating flowers after the condition has improved, so Mr. Gao will regularly go to the hospital to get free medicine. Mr. Gao, who lives in Hengyang, a few hours each time the car ride to the Changsha dispensary, the cost has become a problem.
Flowers was 1 year old 4 months, with it very convenient, "for the first time with the kids over, but the future is a people to come." Mr. Gao says with resignation. "It is a poor family, I'll try to spend the least time is money, medicine is free, they also try to fare evasion. I do not want, but it is no way."
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Hunan Province found 102 children infected with HIV
Yesterday, reporters from the Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control Division of STD and AIDS prevention and control was informed that, as of the end of October 2010, Hunan had reported HIV infected persons under the age of 14, 102, AIDS36 people, 27 deaths, of which 2010 were reported from January to October 14 HIV infected persons under the age of 16, AIDS12 people killed 11 people.
Changsha City Hospital for Infectious Diseases AIDS treatment area leader Professor Wang Min said that at present most of the AIDS children in the province here in her treatment. There are 13 children, the youngest only 5 months. Compared with normal children, children living with HIV retardation, physical and intellectual to be worse, "no PMTCT treatment, positive mothers, 30% of children born of the possibility of infection. If the whole PMTCT, then the possibility of infection dropped to 3%. "
May this year, the CDC in the province of Hunan Province has launched the "early infant diagnosis," the library of the epidemic HIV-positive pregnant women all the track, on the successful delivery of pregnant women, infants and young children for early mobilization of the free nucleic acid diagnostics. Come to detection of the reimbursement of a person round trip tolls. 95 cases were found positive pregnant women during pregnancy, 75 cases of successful delivery, 31 cases have already accepted the test, have been found positive in 7 cases, 8 cases were negative, there are still some waiting for test results.
Wang Min said that AIDS children, a family of three are the basic AIDS, the treatment cost is a major problem. Infected children often have many complications, need a lot of money to medical treatment.
Hunan Province, chief of the CDC STD and AIDS Prevention, said Professor Chen Xi, part of the HIV-positive children have reached school age, but the current reality is that no school would like to receive, the children can not integrate into the social, psychological, more and more withdrawn, how to survive after be unknown.