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Guideline

Consolidated guidelines on general HIV care and the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection: recommendations for a public health approach

Year of Publication
2013
Issuing Institution
WHO
Links
WHO IRIS,WHO IRIS

Recommendations

61 included recommendations

In settings where national authorities have decided that maternal and child health services will mainly promote and support breastfeeding and ARV interventions as the strategy that will most likely give infants born to mothers known to be infected with HIV the greatest chance of HIV-free survival: National or subnational health authorities should decide whether health services will principally counsel and support mothers known to be HIV infected to either breastfeed and receive ARV interventions or avoid all breastfeeding. In settings where national authorities have decided that maternal and child health services will principally promote and support breastfeeding and antiretroviral interventions as the strategy that will most likely give infants born to mothers known to be HIV infected the greatest chance of HIV-free survival, mothers known to be infected with HIV should exclusively breastfeed their infants for the first 6 months of life, introducing appropriate complementary foods thereafter, and continue breastfeeding for the first 12 months of life. Breastfeeding should then stop only once a nutritionally adequate and safe diet without breast-milk can be provided

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