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I would like to thank you for running Jerry Thomas` story of Feb. 23. As Thomas clearly pointed out, caring for an HIV-exposed child is not a sentence for contracting the disease. Instead, it is an opportunity for an infant to experience the nurturing and love that every child deserves.
Furthermore, 70 percent of all HIV-exposed babies falsely test positive during their first 18 months because they are carrying their mother`s antibodies. So most of these AIDS babies are not really infected in the first place.
My plea to your audience is that more families consider caring for our ever-increasing number of children who are innocently exposed to the HIV virus. These children, like all others, need to be held.
