HIV and Breastfeeding
The untold story
$65.24
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2022
Summary
In the early 1980s it was discovered that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, could be passed through a mother’s milk to her baby. Almost overnight in the industrialised countries, and later in the African countries most ravaged by HIV, breastfeeding became an endangered practice. But in the rush to reduce transmission of HIV, everything we already knew about breastfeeding’s life-saving effects was overlooked, with devastating consequences for mothers and babies.
In HIV and Breastfee…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780667508 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780667507 |
| Author: | Pamela Morrison |
| Publisher: | Montag & Martin Limited |
| Imprint: | Pinter & Martin Ltd. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 730g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 155mm |
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About The Author
Pamela Morrison
Pamela Morrison has been speaking and writing about breastfeeding and HIV since 1995. A former La Leche League Leader, in 1990 she became the first IBCLC in Zimbabwe, where she worked in private practice and served as a member of the Zimbabwe National Multi-sectoral Breastfeeding Committee, as a BFHI trainer and assessor, and assisted with development of national WHO Code legislation and HIV and breastfeeding policy. She was a consultant to the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, authoring the WABA publication, International Policy on HIV and Breastfeeding: a Comprehensive Resource. Since 2005 she has lived and worked in the UK and until her recent retirement continued to contribute to breastfeeding policy and work in private practice to support mothers and babies.
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