Children born with HIV survive into teens

Children infected with HIV at birth are surviving into adolescence, overturning the assumption that virtually all die before the age of five, doctors working in Zimbabwe will reveal this week. But because the children's growth has been stunted they face particular difficulties as they enter puberty, which are not being tackled. Doctors working in sub-Saharan Africa have been noticing older children arriving at HIV clinics with the late stage of the disease. But until now, there has been no proof that this reflected more than the survival from birth of a few individuals.