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When will the media understand "exclusive breastfeeding"?
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Jacquie Nutt <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:22:13 +0200
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From the PlusNews report http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=87263 is this little bit of mistakenly "plussed" news:

"The new guidelines encourage HIV-positive mothers taking ARVs to exclusively breastfeed their infants for the first twelve months of life."

Here is a link to the original WHO press release in honour of World AIDS Day (today).  It does not encourage "twelve months of exclusive breastfeeding," of course.  http://u.nu/37q24

The really exciting bit about this new recommendation is that this may put to sleep the unrealistic recommendation of exclusive short term breastfeeding and abrupt weaning at 4 or 6 months for HIV infected mothers, which has been standard locally.  Perhaps we have merely shifted the abrupt weaning date on a few months, and perhaps the medication brings its own problems, but it opens up the options. 

Jacquie Nutt IBCLC
South Africa


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