Infant feeding and HIV

Hiv and Infant Feeding Technical Consultation

Infant-feeding patterns and HIV-1 transmission.

Infant feeding and HIV-1 transmission.

Anna Coutsoudis and colleagues present a potentially important piece of the puzzle concerning the transmission of HIV-1 through breast-feeding in the first few months of life. Breast-feeding poses a substantial risk of acquiring HIV-1 infection for the baby of an HIV-1-infected mother. Samples from 549 infants were tested by HIV-DNA PCR on day 1 and at ages 1 month and 3 months. Results reve...

Infant feeding and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Let us give credit to those pioneering funders and practitioners who have risked sacrificing the comfort of armchair critic status in favour of the partly successful but promising models upon which we can base our future successes. A decade after the early acrimonious engagements we now find clinicians on both sides of the table representing IPAs and managed care organisations — talks are still...

Prevention of postnatal HIV infection: infant feeding and antiretroviral interventions.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Mother-to-child transmission of HIV causes most paediatric HIV infections. Short-course peripartum antiretroviral therapy, available in resource-constrained settings, can reduce risk for transmission around the time of delivery. Acceptable, efficient and safe interventions aimed at reducing risk for postnatal HIV transmission through breast milk remain elusive, however. RECE...