>While I fervently hope the study showing no HIV transmission with EXCLUSIVE
>breastfeeding is correct and is replicated many times, I don't believe the
>literature is clear enough to support breastfeeding with HIV in the
>"developed" world.
>Nancy Wight MD, FAAP, IBCLC
>Neonatologist, San Diego, CA, USA




No one is asking anyone to support or not support bf....just to support the
woman's right to access the info she wishes, to access  informed people
who will help her interpret what she hears/reads,  and then to support her
right to choose, given that all of the literature and research  is still
open to interpretation, to  doubt and to far, far more development.

If the mother then asks, 'what would *you* do?', then  it could be answered
truthfully.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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