Winning back mother's magical milk.

نویسنده

  • Chris Bateman
چکیده

One of the most underrated social dangers of the AIDS pandemic in developing countries is that the risk currently inherent in breastfeeding may cause it to go ‘out of fashion’, even among HIV-negative mothers. Professor Jerry Coovadia From questionnaires sent out, her province had identified 1 300 health care workers who potentially need dispensing licences but this number was being ‘carefully scrutinised’, she added.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde

دوره 94 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004