Hi Everybody: The research on HIV is scary. In the USA however, 3 women out of 2,000 are HIV+, which leaves us lots of mothers to work with, and plenty who could nurse. Why oh why isn't there a massive campaign to alert people to the dangers of semen which is a more significant and ubiquitous vector for HIV transmission? Now there is a deadly fluid! Why is it human milk that we must beware and not the male fluid? Semen has spread HIV around the world. One man can infect tens of other men and women..why doesn't WHO/UNICEF and other agencies give at least equal emphasis to avoiding contact with it? Is this another reflection of the past millenia's growing, frightening trend of patriarchy? If we can't breastfeed, we probably shouldn't procreate either.....Nikki