IFM Position on Infant Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

IFM member companies strongly support the aims of the joint UNICEF-UNAIDS-WHO Report: HIV Transmission and Infant Feeding, the Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding and WHO’s HIV and Infant Feeding Framework for Priority Action and commend the UN on its ongoing efforts to promote safe and appropriate infant feeding in special circumstances.  Learn more...

See Also:

• AIDS Brings Shift on Breast-feeding (excerpt from New York Times article by Lawrence K. Altman)
• Children and Young People in a World of AIDS (AIDS Report, August 2001.)
• Formula for Disaster: Politics May Be the Mother’s Milk of UNICEF (December 8, 2000)

Resources

See: References

Links:

• Young people and HIV/AIDS : Opportunity in crisis
  Report - 1/6/2002  (pdf file)
• Effect of Breastfeeding on Mortality Among HIV-1 Infected Women
  A Randomized Trial, Lancet (05.26.01) Vol 357: P1651-55: (Online version allows only limited access to articles unless you register.)
• Effect of Breast-feeding on Mortality Among HIV Infected Women (WHO Statement, June 7, 2001)

Books

• Breastfeeding and HIV AIDS: The Research, the Politics, the Women’s Responses
  Author: Edith White
  Binding: Paperback, 212 pages
  Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Published Date: 04/01/1999
  

Organisations and Websites

• UNAIDS Report, Young People and HIV/AIDS 2002
• WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF Report on HIV and Infant Feeding
• AIDS Epidemic Update 2003  PDF 1.68 Mb
• Le point sur l'épidémie de SIDA - 2003 
  PDF 1.77 Mb
• National Pediatric and Family HIV Resource Center
  Research literature updates: Perinatal, Infants & Children, Youth, Women