Dear Darillyn,

I think these are references you looked for

Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol. 1990 Apr;(4):17-23.

[An intrahospital outbreak of HIV infection in Elista]

[Article in Russian]

Pokrovskii VV, Eramova IIu, Deulina MO, Lipetikov VV, Iashkulov KB,
Sliusareva LA, Chemizova NM, Savchenko SP.

For the first time a nosocomial focus of HIV infection was established.
Out of 83,000 inhabitants of the Kalmyck ASSR who underwent planned
examination in the course of epidemiological investigation, 65 cases of
HIV infection were detected and all of them were traced to the focus of
hospital infection (56 children and 9 adults: 1 man and 8 women; of these,
7 women contacted the infection from their infected children in the
process of breast feeding). The children were infected during their stay
in two hospitals of Elista where they received multiple intravenous and
intramuscular injections. The infection spread from the infant department
of the regional pediatric hospital to 4 more departments and to the
infectious diseases hospital. Transmission of this infection was
maintained for several months by the use of nonsterile syringes in
parenteral manipulations.


Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol. 1990 Mar;(3):23-6.

[HIV transmission from child to mother during breast feeding]

[Article in Russian]

Pokrovskii VV, Eramov IIu, Kuznetsova II, Sliusareva LA, Lipetikov VV.

Out of 6 mothers breast-feeding their parenterally infected children in
Elista and having no other factors of HIV infection, 3 were found to have
antibodies to HIV, as well as 4 women who breast-fed their children dead
in the focus of infection, but not examined. Pronounced stomatitis in
children and cracks on their mothers' nipples were additional factors
leading to HIV infection of mothers.

" Someone just asked me about whether an adoptive mother could get HIV from
 breastfeeding an HIV+ baby.  I have heard that there were some documented
cases of this, in Russia, in the late 80s, but I haven't been able to find
a reference for it."

sincerely yours,
 Victoria Nesterova
breastfeeding supporter Kiev, Ukraine

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