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The article reports on the services provided by nurse Juliet Houghton to HIV-positive children. She has worked with the Leicestershire AIDS Support Services for eight years and has been working with Leicester Royal Infirmary since 1998. She has stated that it is very important to give mental support to HIV-positive women during their pregnancy. She has commented on the necessity of antiretroviral treatments to HIV-positive children.

Focuses on Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx offering a bedside legal service for mothers with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) to help sort out who will care for their children after death. Statistics on women of childbearing age; Notion of Alice Herb, a New York lawyer and the founder of the project, on maternal concerns.

A nurse-led programme in which pregnant women with HIV are administered antiretroviral drugs has dramatically reduced the number of babies born with HIV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]