Chances Of Passing Hiv Through Breast Feeding

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Pregnancy and HIV

How Do Babies Get AIDS? How Can We Prevent Infection of Newborns? Breastfeeding How Do We Know if a Newborn Is Infected? What About the Mother's Health? The Bottom Line How Do Babies Get AIDS? The virus that causes AIDS can be transmitted from an infected mother to her newborn child. According to the World Health Organization, without antiretroviral treatment, up to 30% of babies of infected mothers get HIV. 5% to 20% more can...

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mother diagnosed with full blown aids breast feeding infant

My cousin died in September of 2000 she never knew she was infected, all along she was breast feeding her child one day she fell sick and was diagnosed with full blown aids in July and passed away in September of the same year my question is what...

Response from John L. Sullivan, M.D.

University of Massachusetts, Medical School

The child that was breast fed is at risk for HIV infection and should be tested for HIV; JLS.... Read more »

HIV by breast feeding

I am in India. My wife was diagnosed HIV in 2008 with CD4 114. Only possible cause is blood transfusion she had in 1989 just after birth of my son.recently my son is also diagnosed HIV with CD4 275. My daughter who was born in 1994 is negative.As...

Response from Joseph McGowan, M.D., F.A.C.P.

North Shore University Hospital

I am sorry to hear about how HIV has impacted your family.It is likely that your son was infected through breast feeding. About 14-17% of HIV transmissions from mother to child happen that way and, if your wife had just become infected at that time... Read more »

Breast Feeding

I understand a HIV can be passed to baby via mother's breastmilk...I had an encounter with woman I did not know where I briefly sucked on her nipples. I called CDC and they said if she was lactating it was possible I could be infected? I dont...

Response from Brooks Jackson, M.D.

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

HIV can be transmitted through breast feeding but the risk is very small. Only about 7% of babies become infected over a year's period when breastfeeding a few times per day. So one breastfeeding episode would be very low risk especially since... Read more »

BREAST FEEDING (mother on HAART)

Dear Doctor,Could I breast fed my baby. I'm on triple regimen (3TC, AZT & NVP)since last two years. I also continued with the ART throughout pregnancy and did C section while giving birth, how far is the chance of my baby getting infected?...

Response from John L. Sullivan, M.D.

University of Massachusetts, Medical School

The risk of transmitting HIV to your baby is less than 1% if your viral load is undetectable; if you have access to baby formula, I would encourage you to use formula feeding for your baby.JLS.... Read more »

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chance of passing it on

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

i had unprotected sex with someone i don't know about 11 months ago. about two weeks after i had strep throat and tonsilitis for a few weeks. i believe i may have HIV. i have recently began having sex w/ my boyfriend. he knows that i might have HIV... Read more »

How is HIV passed from one person to another?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

HIV transmission can occur when blood, semen (cum), pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum), vaginal fluid, or breast milk from an infected person enters the body of an uninfected person.
HIV can enter the body through a vein (e.g., injection drug use), the... Read more »

Is this ars Symptom? did i pass the seroconversion

Posted by merci225, 3 Replies

I had sex with a girl. We kept contact, and couple of days, she contacted me saying that she was HIV + and that i had to test.

We were not under the unflence of any drugs. She gave me fellation and our genitals were rubing. I had body fluids on my... Read more »

Passing on HIV via Saliva

Posted by SaltyWater, 2 Replies

Now I know you can't catch HIV by kissing, but imagine this scenario

You know someone is HIv and your cool with it. You know you cant catch it by french kissing, but suppose the negative person had core / cold core on the edge of his mouth, if the... Read more »

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