“It pains me because as a woman you have to breastfeed your baby”: decision-making about infant feeding among African women living with HIV in the UK Sex Transm Infect 2016;92:331-336 doi:10.1136/sextrans-2015-052224 Abstract Objectives UK guidance advises HIV-positive women to abstain from breast feeding. Although this eliminates the risk of postnatal vertical transmission of HIV, the impact of...
The Conversation, 24 April 2015, 2.36pm AEST
A new pill could enable people living with HIV to conceive children through sex without risking the health of their HIV-negative partner.
HIV and pregnancy is not a topic we hear a lot about in Australia.
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Reuters, Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:45am EDT
Human rights groups have welcomed moves to change a Kenyan law passed to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS, which criminalizes pregnant women who pass HIV/AIDS to their babies, saying it discouraged people from finding out their status.
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NIH, July 10, 2014 uly 10, 2014 • 0 comments • By NIH Newsroom uly 10, 2014 • 0 comments • By NIH Newsroom uly 10, 2014 • 0 comments • By NIH Newsroom The child known as the “Mississippi baby”—an infant seemingly cured of HIV that was reported as a case study of a prolonged remission of HIV infection in The New England Journal of Medicine last fall—now has detectable levels of HIV after more...
The Feed, SBS, 10 Jun 2014 – 8:24am
Imagine being married for 10 years with no idea that your partner was carrying a disease that – if left untreated – could potentially kill you. The Feed’s Patrick Abboud meets a women who contracted HIV and wants to change the stigma around the virus.
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