When he tested positive for HIV 13 years ago, Satoru Ienishi could not imagine becoming a father -- let alone living long enough to hold his healthy, smiling baby girl.
"Now I hope to live long enough to see Reina grow up and get married," said the 40-year-old lawmaker from the Democratic Party of Japan, who became a proud father last summer.
Ienishi, who was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, was among 2,000 hemophiliacs in Japan infected with HIV after being treated with HIV-contaminated unheated blood products imported from the United States.