Individualizing the WHO HIV and infant feeding guidelines

Individualizing the WHO HIV and infant feeding guidelines: optimal breastfeeding duration to maximize infant HIV-free survival.

OBJECTIVES To determine how infant feeding recommendations can maximize HIV-free survival (HFS) among HIV-exposed, uninfected African infants, balancing risks of breast milk-associated HIV infection with setting-specific risks of illness and death associated with replacement feeding. DESIGN Validated mathematical model of HIV-exposed, uninfected infants, with published data from Africa. MET...

WHO Consensus Statement on HIV and Infant Feeding

The release of the new WHO guidelines on HIV and infant feeding, in a global context of widespread impoverishment, requires countries to re-examine their infant-feeding policies in relation to broader socioeconomic issues. This widening scope is necessitated by compelling new reports on the scale of global underdevelopment in developing countries. This paper explores these issues by addressing ...

Implications of the new WHO guidelines on HIV and infant feeding for child survival in South Africa.

The World Health Organization released revised principles and recommendations for HIV and infant feeding in November 2009. The recommendations are based on programmatic evidence and research studies that have accumulated over the past few years within African countries. This document urges national or subnational health authorities to decide whether health services should mainly counsel and sup...

OPINION-BASED INFANT FEEDINg guIDElINES

m edical guidelines are constantly changing and some are even being reversed, as illustrated by a shift in focus from cholesterol numbers to a heart-healthy lifestyle, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation moving from a fixation on maintaining airway and breathing to sustaining circulation. There is no greater example of changing medical advice than what is currently emerging in the allergy field –...

Hiv and Infant Feeding Technical Consultation