Slower Weaning Lowers HIV Risk for Newborns

Two new studies have shed light on how altering breast-feeding practices and drug delivery could help reduce the rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission in poor nations. Experts say the new results will have serious implications for future updates to policy guidelines on HIV and infant feeding by the World Health Organization (WHO).“These are very important studies that have been very well conducted,” says Anirban Chatterjee, a nutrition specialist at UNICEF who sits on the committee responsible for the WHO’s HIV and infant feeding guidelines.Read more at...Nature Medicine, July 2008.