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Recent research has shown that breastfeeding poses a much lower risk of HIV transmission than previously thought, and in 2009 global guidance that promoted formula to avoid HIV transmission was reversed. Mothers living with HIV can now choose to breastfeed if they wish – but in Western societies with low rates of breastfeeding among all mothers, informed and skilled support can be hard to find. Pamela Morrison, retired IBCLC and author of HIV and Breastfeeding, the definitive work on the subject, has written this short book specifically for HIV-positive mothers, and the health professionals they work with, to offer clear, evidence-based information about breastfeeding in the context of HIV. The book explains: background information about the normal course of lactation how to initiate and maintain breastfeeding how to prevent and work through or around difficulties that may arise how to maintain breastmilk production or breastmilk-feeding if supplements are recommended. The aim is to support mothers living with HIV to reach their goals to breastfeed, and then to stop breastfeeding easily and safely whenever they and their babies are ready.

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Pamela Morrison has lived in eight different countries, six of them in Africa, and considers herself to be a White African. Having lived in Kenya as a little girl and moved further south as a young adult, she finally settled in Zimbabwe for 30 years. Accredited in 1987 as a voluntary breastfeeding counsellor with La Leche League and qualified in 1990 as the first International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in Zimbabwe, Pamela built a thriving private practice in a country that had one of the most progressive breastfeeding policies in the world.

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