Health e-Learning - Mothers and babies and HIV: What is the risk of breastfeeding?

Although early research appeared to show that breastfeeding increases the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, recent studies which clearly define "breastfeeding" show no additional risk of MTCT of HIV through exclusive breastfeeding over not breastfeeding at all. In addition, there is no difference in the overall mortality rate at 2 years between children of HIV+ mothers randomized to breast or bottle feeding.

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