Article: Kate was an Aids baby .. she wasn't expected to live to be an Aids teenager; Born HIV-positive, Kate MacLean is now Britain's oldest surviving Aids baby. Kate and mum Colleen, left, reveal their hopes and fears for the future.(Features)

When Colleen and Angus MacLean adopted a 22-month-old baby girl, they were told she probably wouldn't live to see primary school.

For Kate MacLean was one of Britain's 400 "Aids babies" - the children who were infected with the HIV virus, in the womb or at birth, by their mothers.

More than half of such youngsters born since the early 1980s have died.

Yet thanks to careful monitoring and new combination therapy drugs, Kate has proved all the experts wrong to become Britain's oldest surviving "Aids baby" and is now a healthy 12-year-old secondary ...

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