Here is the response I received to my query in trying to find the source of
the French magazine article on this topic.  It is from Salim S. Abdool
Karim, Director: HIV Prevention and Vaccine Research, Medical Research
Council, Professor in Clinical Public Health, Columbia University, who was
on the Scientific Programme committee for the AIDS 2000 conference in
Durban:
"Dear Rachel Myr,
In response to your query, there was no presentation that I can find that
makes this conclusion. There was no study of the progression of HIV disease
in mothers who were breastfeeding and those who were not. There was a paper
from Kenya that compared mortality rates and HIV infection rates in
breastfed and bottlefed babies. This study has also been published earlier
this year in JAMA.

I hope this helps.

Slim"
So, as Chris Mulford suspected, this is a media 'blipp'.  Please tell anyone
else who has heard the rumour that it was NOT presented in Durban and no one
involved in HIV research has ever heard of it.
Rachel Myr

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