Evidence behind the WHO guidelines: Hospital care for children: What are the risks of HIV transmission through breastfeeding?

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 298-302

  Bulteel, Naomi ^a   Henderson, Peggy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SAFETY; THRUSH; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BREAST FEEDING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 36248992395     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmm072     Document Type: Review

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