Open AccessModeling the Effects of Different Infant Feeding Strategies on Infant Survival and Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Author(s) -
Jay Ross,
Miriam H. Labbok
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.94.7.1174
Subject(s) - infant feeding , transmission (telecommunications) , infant mortality , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , environmental health , medicine , child survival , demography , pediatrics , breast feeding , virology , population , sociology , computer science , telecommunications
We investigated how, under various conditions, the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV through breastfeeding compares with the risk of death from artificial feeding.