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Infected children and infants with HIV need to be treated with the same therapy as adults. They need to be given antiretroviral drugs, too. Because their immune systems are already very weak, HIV can take a disastrous toll very, very quickly. Without treatment, one third will die even before their first birthday. Out of those children who do survive without proper treatment after their first year, half of them will parish before their second birthday.

Source
Newell, M. et al (2004), ‘Mortality of infected and uninfected infants born to HIV-infected mothers in Africa: a pooled analysis’, The Lancet 364:9441