HIV Exposure Before Birth May Raise Kids’ Risk of Hearing Loss

<p>FRIDAY, Jun 22 (<span>HealthDay News</span>) — Children unprotected to HIV in
the womb are during increasing risk for conference detriment by a time they’re in
their teens, according to a new study.</p>
<p>The investigate enclosed some-more than 200 kids, aged 7 to 16, who had been
exposed to <span>HIV</span> before birth. About 60 percent of a children were
HIV-positive. Hearing tests were conducted on participants if their
parents or caregivers had reported conference problems, if they had low
scores on a customary denunciation exam or if their doctors rescued hearing
problems.</p>
<p>Based on their commentary from this group, a researchers estimated that<span>hearing loss</span> affects 9 percent to 15 percent of HIV-infected children and
5 to 8 percent of children who did not have HIV during birth though whose mothers
had HIV infection during pregnancy.</p>
<p>Children with HIV infection were about 200...