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Secure Baby Health with Anti-HIV Vaccines

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June 6, 2008

Breastfeeding

As far as your baby is concerned, you never know which type of diseases or illness you may have and it can be transmitted as far as breastfeeding these days. To bolster the immune system of your baby, it would be best to give them a complete line of vaccine shots, including an Anti-HIV regimen to safeguard them from potential HIV risk from mothers who breastfeed.

“In poor countries where sanitation is a problem, exclusive breastfeeding appears to confer the greatest benefits to infant health and survival, even in mothers with HIV” said Duane Alexander, director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which sponsored two studies appearing in the online version of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

“Extended treatment with nevirapine greatly reduces the chances that infants will be infected with HIV through breast milk,” he added. “The National Institutes of Health is now sponsoring additional studies to determine the most effective treatments to prevent the spread of HIV through breast milk.”

(Source) AFP

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  • Anonymous

    Perhaps it isn’t the norm for prenatal care across the board, but my ob-gyn care offered a HIV screening test during my pregnancy. I can’t help but assume most prenatal care offers the same.

    If a mother has reason to believe she may have been exposed to the virus, I could see testing for it. But to administer a vaccine without a darn good reason? Have long-term studies on the outcomes of such vaccines been published?

    Before commiting to a vaccine for HIV, check your facts. Mothering Magazine has collected a good amount of data on this, and discuss the pros and cons.

    http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/breastfeeding/breastfeed-hiv.html

  • http://www.notquitecookiecutter.com/ dawna

    In my area they do testing for HIV alongside a lot of other types of diseases. They run the full spectrum, something I’m fairly certain is a pretty far reaching practice.

    Although, I admittedly don’t know much about the vaccinations for HIV being administered, there are definitely many pros and cons to be weighed.

    I can (admittedly with my little knowledge on the product itself) see this as a positive for areas at high risk.

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