Hiv And Breastfeeding

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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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doctors opinions about HIV and breastfeeding

Are most doctors for or against an HIV positive mother breastfeeding her baby?...

Response from Brooks Jackson, M.D.

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

In the United States doctors advise HIV infected women not to breastfeed their baby because clean water and formula is readily affordable and available. In developing countries this is not the case where infant death rates are high if a mother does... Read more »

relationship between ages, race and HIV mothers breastfeeding

Is there a pattern in the ages of the HIV positive mothers who breastfeed their babies? Is there a particular race that tends to do this more than another?...

Response from Brooks Jackson, M.D.

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

In the Unites States HIV positive mothers (regardless of age and race) are strongly advised not to breastfeed their babies. In the poorer developing countries, particularly in Africa, breastfeeding among HIV infected women is nearly universal at... Read more »

hiv and breastfeeding

Department of Health4 Hello doc i copied and pasted the extract above. i have been reading too much literature about hiv and breastfeeding . so how possible is it for the mother not to transcript the virus to the baby. Am in the united states....

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hello and good to hear back from you.The Department of Health quote comes from the United Kingdom in 2005- so this is the most relevant or current idea.Here in the US, breast feeding by HIV+ mothers is not recommended by current medical practice or... Read more »

hiv & breastfeeding

since breastfeeding is not an option for a mother with HIV/AIDS, what is the best option for feeding a baby (whose mum is hiv positive)...

Response from Brooks Jackson, M.D.

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

Formula feeding if you have access to clean water and formula.BJ... Read more »

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HIV and milk

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Can I get HIV from milk? I read I can in People magazine.

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In Kenya with HIV

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

My name is Nyarayi and i am a woman Living with HIV in kenya
since 1991. I have a son who is turning 7 on 16 August this year
I am also having my birht day on the 6th of June I'll be turning
29 years. Send birthday wishes please.I am the coodonator... 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 »

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Posted by shadow1

You would think that after 21 years of this disease being around, all the news, and all the education out there, that people would know how this disease is contracted. I see daily on this board people who seem to have no clue about how this disease... Read more »

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