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This book presents a summary of the available scientific evidence on the transmission of HIV infection through breastfeeding. It briefly describes the benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and infants; and summarizes evidence on the relative risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 infection during pregnancy, delivery, and breastfeeding.

Breast feeding. --- Disease Transmission, Vertical. --- HIV infections. --- Infant Nutrition. --- HIV infections --- Infants --- Breastfeeding --- AIDS (Disease) in infants --- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes --- Lentivirus Infections --- Feeding Behavior --- Age Groups --- Nutrition Processes --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral --- Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Behavior --- Persons --- Physiological Processes --- Immune System Diseases --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases --- Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Retroviridae Infections --- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Diseases --- Named Groups --- RNA Virus Infections --- Physiological Phenomena --- Virus Diseases --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Phenomena and Processes --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Breast Feeding --- HIV Infections --- Infant --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Communicable Diseases --- Transmission --- Nutrition --- Health and hygiene --- Health aspects --- Prevention --- Transmission. --- Nutrition. --- Health and hygiene. --- Health aspects. --- Prevention. --- Breast feeding --- Nursing (Breastfeeding) --- Suckling --- HIV (Viruses) infections --- HTLV-III infections --- HTLV-III-LAV infections --- Human T-lymphotropic virus III infections --- Care and hygiene --- Immunologic diseases in infants --- Lactation --- Wet nurses --- Lentivirus infections --- Sexually transmitted diseases