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VOA News Examines South African Policy Promoting Exclusive Breastfeeding For Mothers With HIV

VOA News examines the South African government's decision in September 2011 to stop providing a free six-month supply of infant formula to mothers with HIV and have "its health facilities ... encourage the women to exclusively breastfeed for at least the first six months of their babies' lives."

Published
21 June 2012
From
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
Infant feeding
'Breast Best' Policy Challenged in South Africa

In September last year, South Africa’s health minister Aaron Motsoaledi implemented a drastic and highly contentious measure. He announced that the government would no longer provide a free six-month supply of formula milk to HIV-infected mothers. Instead, its health facilities would encourage the women to exclusively breastfeed for at least the first six months of their babies’ lives.

Published
20 June 2012
From
Voice of America
Vaccines
Newly discovered breast milk antibodies help neutralize HIV

Antibodies that help to stop the HIV virus have been found in breast milk. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center isolated the antibodies from immune cells called B cells in the breast milk of infected mothers in Malawi.

Published
23 May 2012
From
EurekAlert (press release)
Infant feeding
Flash-heating breastmilk to inactivate HIV is feasible for women in resource-poor countries

An international team led by UC Davis researchers has found that mothers in sub-Saharan Africa could successfully follow a protocol for flash-heating breastmilk to reduce transmission of human immunodeficiency virus -- the virus that causes AIDS -- to their infants.

Published
03 May 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Infant feeding
Breastfeeding For Longer Plus Extended ART May Reduce Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission

Long-term results of the Breastfeeding, Antiretrovirals, and Nutrition (BAN) randomized trial reveals that breastfeeding for a longer period along (6+ months) with antiretroviral therapy (ART) could help reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission as well as improve chances of infant's survival.

Published
30 April 2012
From
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Infant feeding
Breastfeeding, Not Formula, for South Africa's HIV-Positive Mothers

South Africa's nine provinces will begin phasing out provision of free formula to HIV-positive mothers and implement a new policy on breast-feeding from Sunday. But despite the clarity of the policy and its supporting data, vocal critics, including respected individuals from leading medical and academic institutions, have decried the choice.

Published
01 April 2012
From
Inter Press Service
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Zimbabwe: what will it take to achieve virtual elimination of infant HIV infections?

Efforts to achieve "virtual elimination" of new HIV infections in infants by 2015 could prove highly challenging, according to computer modelling of the situation in

Published
11 January 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Nevirapine and cotrimoxazole prophylaxis safe in HIV-exposed, uninfected infants

Use of nevirapine with cotrimoxazole prophylaxis in HIV-exposed uninfected infants (HIV-EU) until six months of age in Zimbabwe and Uganda was safe with no immediate or long-term adverse effects,

Published
15 December 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Infant feeding
AFRICA: HIV-positive women still confused about infant-feeding choices

The latest guidelines on infant-feeding options for HIV-positive mothers in Africa have not been disseminated in many countries, leaving women dangerously confused about the best nutritional path to protect their children from contracting the virus, a new report shows.

Published
09 December 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
Infant feeding
Pre-chewed food may pose HIV threat to infants

A new study from South Africa found that more than two-thirds of mothers and other caregivers pre-chew food for their infants -- possibly putting those babies at risk of HIV if the caregiver is HIV-positive.

Published
30 August 2011
From
Reuters
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