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For those fortunate enough to receive improved treatment regimens, AIDS is no longer an inevitable death sentence.  

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One woman in the U.S. state of Oregon is not only living with AIDS, she's giving new life.  

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Alina Cho has her story.

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Jennifer Jako does all the things other pregnant women do.  

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She continues to work.

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This is beautiful.

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Gets plenty of exercise and makes regular visits to the doctor.  

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But Jako is different. At age 18, she made a poor decision that changed her life.

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We both got drunk and neither of us, I think, wanted to but we ended up having sex.

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Jako felt so awful about it, she decided to become abstinent.  

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It was too late.

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With those words, Jennifer, I'm sorry, your pap smear is normal but your HIV test is positive. I'm sorry.  

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Everything came crashing around me.  

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Every dream, every hope, everything I thought I would be was over.  

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I would never be the girl that I was.  

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All of a sudden I was the infection.

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The prognosis at the time was not good.  

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Doctors told her, if she was lucky she'd live to be 25.

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I had no idea that it could happen to me.  

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I truly thought of this disease as a disease of gay men, IV drug users.  

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What in my family were spoken of as bad people. People that we didn't know.

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That was 15 years ago. Today, Jako is alive and well, thanks to modern medicine.  

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Three pills twice a day. She never misses a dose.  

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She also watches what she eats and gets plenty of sleep.  

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Pregnant through in vitro fertilization, her baby girl is due in July and the chances of her child being HIV positive are about 1 percent.  

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That's in large part because Jako's virus has been successfully suppressed.  

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A story so remarkable, she recently landed on the cover of "Newsweek" magazine with this provocative photo inside.  

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Chris Bleiler has been by her side for nine years, five of them as her husband.  

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They've practiced safe sex. He's remained healthy and HIV negative and is now looking forward to fatherhood.

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He thinks about it a lot.

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I think about it probably more than I should.

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He spends a lot of time wondering if he's going to be a good dad and just hoping that he does all the right things.

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Just like any other couple, except this one is learning to live with HIV.

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I look at every day as golden. I get to have today.  

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I get to have the time that I share with my family or my friends.  

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I get to have a good day today.

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Jako says she hopes to live to see her child graduate from high school.  

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Her doctor says she needs to start looking forward to being a mother, a grandmother and saving up for retirement.