Breastfeeding Is Safe For HIV+ Mothers

Speaking at a BOTUSA/MISA workshop themed "New Directions in HIV and AIDS" at Marang Hotel here last week, Dr Molly Smit said research had shown that breastfeeding by HIV positive mothers was not as horrible as earlier believed.

Smit, who works with the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission  (PMTCT) project for BOTUSA in Francistown, told the workshop: "Breast milk is not as bad as we thought because research has shown that (only) four percent of children can get infected through breastfeeding."