HIV-Positive Poor Women May Stop Breast-feeding Early to Protect Their Infants from HIV Infection although Available Replacement Diets Are Grossly Inadequate
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Exclusive breast-feeding and HIV infection.
Background Research suggests that infants born to HIV positive women should be either exclusively breast or bottle fed. If breastfeeding is the method chosen it should be continued for at least six months in order to reduce the risk of viral transmission. Breastfeeding is especially important in the context of poverty and when clean water and fuel resources are inadequate for safe artificial fe...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nutrition
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0022-3166,1541-6100
DOI: 10.1093/jn/138.2.351