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New Aids study reveals safe breast feeding
By Jennifer Bakyawa
August 10, 2003

Results from a joint Ugandan and Rwandese study indicate that children can
be protected from contracting HIV/ Aids while breast-feeding.

Prof. Francis Mmiro said infection among breast-feeding infants, could be
reduced through treatment of the mothers with anti-retroviral drugs.

Counselling of the mothers on breast- feeding practices would also reduce
postnatal infection.

The two methods reduce postnatal ttransmission from "15 percent to an
incidence of 1 percent in the first six months of life," he said on Friday.

Prof. Mmiro was presenting results of the study to a two- day national
prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) workshop and inter-site
co-ordination meeting at Hotel Africana.

The first presentation of the study results was done in Paris, France last
month at an HIV/Aids international conference.


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