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LARA FREIDENFELDS

Historian of Health, Reproduction, and Parenting in America

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    • Sep 19, 2014

    Review: Positively Negative: Love, Pregnancy, and Science’s Surprising Victory over HIV

    What would you do if you desperately wanted to have a baby, and your spouse had HIV? In the mid-1990s, the introduction of highly-effective HIV drug regimens turned HIV from a death sentence into a chronic condition.  People with HIV and their life partners could begin to imagine creating families and living to see their children grow up.  But it was not until 2014 that researchers and policy-makers approved a prophylactic regimen that effectively protects against HIV-transmi
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