The six-month-old baby of the woman from Virudhunagar, who was transfused with HIV-positive blood at a government hospital in December last year, tested negative for HIV at Government Hospital in Madurai on Saturday. This comes a day after the Madras High Court ordered the Tamil Nadu government to sanction Rs 25 lakh as compensation to the mother. The baby is supposed to undergo three tests — one at 45 days, the second after six months and the third after 18 months.
Two have been completed, both showing favourable results. When the first test was concluded, K Raj, project director of Tamil Nadu AIDS Control Society said that the first set of Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) tests, conducted at the end of the sixth week (45-days) on March 27, had shown negative results. The Times of India states that a method called ‘rapid card test’ was used in this second test and a total of three ‘rapid…
