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[00:00.00]From VOA Learning English,[00:02.59]this is the Health Report.[00:05.48]Hundreds of thousands of children[00:08.40]become infected with the AIDS virus every year.[00:13.02]These boys and girls are born to mothers who have HIV,[00:18.01]the human immunodeficiency virus.[00:21.44]Infection takes place during pregnancy[00:24.79]or from breastfeeding.[00:27.60]Recently, Scientists identified a protein[00:32.31]in breast milk that suppresses the virus,[00:35.97]the protein may even protect babies[00:39.36]from become infected.[00:41.72]Now, Experts say the discovery could lead to new ways[00:46.67]to protect babies whose mothers are infected with HIV.[00:51.77]To prevent Infection, doctors give Anti-retroviral drugs[00:57.79]to both mothers and their babies,[01:00.88]that has greatly reduced the number of infections.[01:04.84]But experts say that even without anti-AIDS drugs,[01:10.68]only a small percentage of babies[01:13.68]become infected through breast milk.[01:16.63]Sallie Permar is a professor of pediatrics and immunology[01:22.19]at Duke University in North Carolina.[01:25.96]She says, breastfeed babies appear to resist infection.[01:31.71]"It is actually remarkable that despite[01:34.85]the infant being exposed to the virus multiple times daily[01:38.29]for up to two years of their life,[01:41.57]actually only 10 percent of those babies[01:43.82]will become infected," said Permar.[01:45.31]The low rate of the infection[01:47.47]was of great interest to researchers,[01:50.13]including Sallie Permar.[01:52.52]She led an effort to identify a substance in breast milk[01:57.98]that may protect babies from infection.[02:01.19]Her team directed its attention to a protein[02:05.24]called Tenacin-C, also called TNC.[02:10.71]It is known to be involved in the process of healing wounds.[02:15.62]But what purpose it serves in breast milk is not known.[02:21.27]The researchers exposed the TNC protein[02:25.48]from breast milk of uninfected women to HIV,[02:29.99]the protein linked up to the virus and made it harmless.[02:34.94]Antiretroviral drugs remain effective[02:39.04]in limiting the passing of HIV from mother to baby.[02:44.25]But professor Permar and her team suggest[02:49.15]the TNC could be used in places[02:52.65]where costly drug treatments are often not available.[02:57.66]"The issues are access to the drugs as well as monitoring.[03:03.16]There are issues of toxicity and anti-retroviral drug resistance.[03:07.73]And so we think alternative strategies[03:11.49]may be needed to completely eliminate infant transmission," she Permar.[03:14.44]She suggests that TNC could be given to babies[03:20.35]before breastfeeding to provide additional protection against HIV.[03:27.15]She adds that the protein is safe,[03:30.59]because it is already in natural part of human milk.[03:35.10]This may avoid the problem of HIV[03:38.69]become resisted to Antiretroviral drugs.[03:42.89]The team reported its findings in the journal[03:46.65]Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[03:50.61]And that is the Health Report from VOA Learning English.[03:55.90]I'm June Simms.