In Mumbai, India a new discovering, that is more bad than good, was found about the HIV disease while doing a "continuing research about HIV-discordant couples of whom only one partner has the virus"(Lyer, 2011).
The research was perform by the National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (NIRRH). "The NIRRH is an institute operates under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), located in Patel" (Lyer, 2011). Scientist of the NIRRH "have found in the case of a patient that the genetic sequence of the HIV virus in his blood sample was different from that in his sperm" (Lyer, 2011). The founding is both important and scary because it emphasizes "the disease's instability" (Lyer, 2011). The assistant director of the NIRRH team,Dr Atmaram Bandivdekar, stated that "HIV is so weak that it cannot replicate completely. Hence, its genetic sequence keeps changing as seen from the same patient's blood and semen samples" (Lyer, 2011). He beleives that this consecutive change of the disease is the reason why a cure haven't been found and it can also explain " the full-blown manifestation AIDS" (Lyer, 2011).
Wow.. This is interesting if an HIV+ man's blood and sperm are different allowing to have children, even if its via test tube. But I don't think its surprising that the virus mutates so fast that, that might be the reason the blood and sperm have different test results. However, I don't know how ethical it would be to allow the HIV+ man to have a child via infertility treatment and test the results in an HIV- woman, and the only way to find that out would be to impregnate an HIV- women with an HIV+ man, and hopefully it doesn't come to that not knowing the end result. But we do know an HIV+ woman can bare HIV- children in most cases.
ReplyDeleteWe have known about sperm washing for some time now. However, it may be obsolete because if the man can keep his viral load undetectable below 20 for a year, there are some that say he could father a child without doing anything like sperm washing.
ReplyDeleteWe know what women who are compliant and whose viral load is undetectable can have negative babies, so the assumption is the same for a man. It will be interesting to see if it works.
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