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New ethics guidelines announced for HIV patients

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 11th, 2002

Fertility specialists shouldn't dismiss the idea of helping some HIV infected parents have children, new ethics guidelines say.

The standards issued February 13, 2002 by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine said therapies now exist that can greatly reduce the risk of passing HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to the baby.

They do not encourage HIV infected couples to have children and caution that doctors should ensure parents understand their baby could be infected, regardless of what precautions are taken.

Since 1994, the group's ethics guidelines have discouraged fertility treatment if a potential parent has HIV. The...

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