Survival and health benefits of breastfeeding versus artificial feeding in infants of hiv-infected women: Developing versus developed world

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 843-862

  Kuhn, Louise ^a,b   Aldrovandi, Grace ^c  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial feeding; Breastfeeding; HIV transmission; Mother to child transmission

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT FEEDING; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LACTATION; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 78349294867     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2010.08.011     Document Type: Review

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