How is HIV transmitted from a mother to a baby?

How is HIV transmitted from a mother to a baby?I know that it can be transmitted through child birth, breast feeding. I want to know how a baby can or cannot be infected. Not in physical ways it can be transmitted but in the molecular ways in the cells how it is transmitted and why or why not a baby could be infected.

Mustang Sally
An HIV pos mother can lower the risk that her infant will contract her HIV if she has a c-section birth (less blood on baby than through the birth canal) and bottle feeds. I don't think HIV penetrates the placenta while pregnant.

emo ja
The chance that HIV infection is transmitted from a mother who is HIV infected to her child during pregnancy can be reduced to 2 percent or less (fewer than 2 out of every 100). This is possible because of better medicines available to treat HIV. But first, the pregnant woman and her doctor must know if she is infected with HIV.

Try the Centers for Disease Control's website for more information...

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