Babies born to HIV-positive mothers did not usually survive for very long until medical research developed an innovative treatment in the 1980s. This medicine - then known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and now just called ART - revolutionised the management of HIV-positive people.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/news-and-features/living-with-hiv-from-birth