HIV Positive Husband, Prevent transmission to the baby

Dear Ask The Doctor: My husband is HIV positive and I am not, what are the proper steps to prevent HIV from spreading to the baby.

Dear Antoinette: HIV is not transmitted through everyday social contact. The transmission occurs through sexual contact, through intravenous drug use and sharing of needles, through infected blood donations and from mother to child during pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. While HIV may live for a short while outside of the body, the transmission may not occur as a result of contact with spillages or small traces of blood, semen or other body fluids. This is partly because HIV dies quite quickly once exposed to the air, and also because spilled fluids would have to get into a person's bloodstream to infect them.