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Future Directions
Author(s) -
LHOTSKA LUDMILA,
ARMSTRONG HELEN
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb05483.x
Subject(s) - breastfeeding , nevirapine , confidentiality , promotion (chess) , spillover effect , pledge , pandemic , obligation , medicine , business , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , environmental health , public relations , family medicine , political science , pediatrics , covid-19 , viral load , economics , antiretroviral therapy , disease , pathology , politics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , microeconomics
A bstract : Despite progress in promotion and support of breastfeeding over the past decade, the HIV pandemic necessitates new actions based on human rights, such as voluntary and confidential testing and counseling, offering HIV‐positive women objective information on the risks and costs of all infant feeding options, and providing appropriate support for their decisions. Implementation of the Baby‐Friendly Hospital Initiative and the International Code of Marketing are essential components of a rights‐based policy response to HIV and will lessen spillover of replacement feeding among HIV‐negative women. Protective effects of nevirapine and exclusive breastfeeding, as well as the listed additional topics, require further research. We have yet to make exclusive breastfeeding easy and common when mothers choose to breastfeed.