We have Pastor Gift’s house built, the clinic almost complete, the geranium almost ready to be planted and the Church is growing. Now, we must prepare for kids to start moving on the property and bringing more life! Please continue to pray for provision and the chance to get our children’s homes up quickly – it is life and death for these babies… I will share their stories later as we confirm…
I found this article today and wanted to share it with you; very interesting. The article is about people infected with HIV in Africa having healthy babies; here is an excerpt
New hope on AIDS in corner of ravaged Africa
Progress in treating disease protects unborn children against infection
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – In a sign of hope on a continent ravaged by AIDS, a South African fertility clinic has started a service allowing couples infected with the virus to have a healthy baby.
The Cape Fertility Clinic is the first in Africa to open a laboratory for HIV-positive patients, enabling them to conceive and give birth to HIV-negative babies by using procedures such as in-vitro fertilization.
“HIV is no longer seen as a death sentence but a chronic disease,” says Klaus Wiswedel, one of the clinic’s directors. “And people with chronic diseases are entitled to have fertility treatment. We can safely deliver an HIV negative child and, with the right treatment, the parent can live a long life.”
In Mozambique the proportion of pregnant women on therapy increased from 3 percent to 46 percent; in Uganda from 9 percent to 34 percent; in Swaziland from 5 percent to 67 percent; in Zambia 18 percent to 47 percent and in South Africa from 15 percent to 67 percent, the report says.
Even stricken Zimbabwe, where the health service has collapsed, managed an increase from 8 percent to 29 percent. In Botswana, which has one of the highest AIDS rates in the world but has enough resources and commitment to provide treatment, 95 percent of HIV positive pregnant women were given antiretroviral drugs to protect their children in 2007.
Read the rest of the article here
