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Article from mms-bulletin:

Bulletin No. 105, July 2007

Supporting mothers to make informed choices

HIV and Infant Feeding

(E | IBFAN)

Lída Lhotská | The HIV/AIDS pandemic and the fact that HIV can be transmitted via breastfeeding have brought about one of the most painful dilemmas of the last two decades in the field of public health. Suddenly, breastfeeding, so well known and appreciated for saving lives and improving overall health prospects of babies and their mothers everywhere in the world, came to be regarded as a culprit. Because it could transmit a virus for which there was no cure, it seemed that all its myriad benefits were temporarily forgotten.

Med in Switzerland:

Nestlé: Profit statt Gesundheit
Noch fehlt der Gegenbeweis

(D) Frank König | Wie glaubwürdig sind öffentliche Ankündigen des Nestlé-Konzerns im Hinblick auf die Änderung seiner Vermarktungspraktiken für Babynahrung?

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