Breastfeeding and HIV Transmission (5)
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Paul Chinnock is probably aware of the joint UNAIDS/UNICEF/WHO guide-
lines for HIV and Infant Feeding. The guidelines continue to support,
protect and promote breast feeding as the best feeding method for in-
fants whose mothers are HIV-negative or do not know their HIV status.
Among other things, the guidelines insist the importance of ensuring
that the methods used for production or distribution of replacement
feeding or alternatives to breast milk comply with the International
Code of Marketing Breast Milk Substitutes and related World Health As-
sembly resolutions.
Thus, accepting money (through advertisements) from baby milk manufac-
turers remain unethical, and will highly "contaminate" your respectable
work.
Mary G. Materu
Nutritionist
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
mailto:materu@ud.co.tz
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