HIV and Breastfeeding: the untold story health We offer it as an

We offer it as an olive branch and invitation to more fruitful intellectual dialogue with our friends in personality research (and also to our friends in anthropology and sociology who cluck

brings his warmth and positivity to a subject close to his heart: breastfeeding

' Susie Mesure

but not least

HIV and Breastfeeding: the untold story health We offer it as anIn the early 1980s it was discovered that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, could be passed through a mothers milk to her baby. Almost overnight in the industrialised countries, and later in the African countries most ravaged by HIV, breastfeeding became an endangered practice. But in the rush to reduce transmission of HIV, everything we already knew about breastfeedings life saving effects was overlooked, with devastating consequences for mothers and