Karleen, thank you! What you say seems to follow the trend that most
women with HIV were not born in the host country. Other countries
find too that they usually come from sub-Saharan Africa, and most
usually from East or Southern Africa - and co-incidentally these are
the mothers who would have expected to just breastfeed so that the
stigma of being forced to formula-feed in front of relatives and
friends in the new country is very great :-(
And I stand corrected about the numbers - clearly Australia is having
to cope with increasing numbers of HIV+ individuals now. When we
emigrated in 2003 we had to have negative HIV tests and negative
chest Xrays for TB (the twin infection for HIV+ individuals). It was
quite a relief for me actually to know that my boys were OK since
they'd had raw, unpasteurized, donor milk in their first few days of
life in the hospital in Harare in 1982, while the pandemic was
incubating, but before the first report about transmission through
breastmilk came from Australia in 1985.
Thanks again.
Pamela
At 01:02 18/04/2014, you wrote:
>Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:47:57 +1000
>From: Karleen Gribble <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Australian HIV and infant feeding recommendations
>
>Hi Pam,
>Definitely more than that but the numbers have increased in recent
>years. Most women with HIV who give birth were not born in Australia
>and it's only in recent years that anyone with HIV has been allowed
>to migrate. The publication with the info is McDonald AM, Zurynski
>YA, Wand HC, et al. Perinatal exposure to HIV among children born in
>Australia, 1982-2006. Med J Aust. 2009;190(8):416-420.
>Karleen Gribble
>Australia
>On 15/04/2014, at 2:16 AM, Pamela Morrison wrote:
>
> > Karleen, thanks again. Your numbers are going up then.... while
> I was there I manually counted all the cases of MTCT there had ever
> been, and it was 28, from 1985 to 2004. And now it's close to 30
> per annum? And I'd wager that most of the mothers are from
> overseas, mainly Africa... Hard.
> >
> > Pamela
> >
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