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AIDS conference focuses on mother-to-child transmissions of HIV.
Byline: Huntly Collins
PHILADELPHIA _ Stopping the spread of the AIDS virus from poor women in developing countries to their newborns will not be as simple as giving them a cheap course of anti-AIDS medicines around the time of birth.
New studies being presented at the 13th International AIDS Conference now meeting in Durban, South Africa, show that even if the drugs allow a baby to escape infection at birth, the child can still acquire the virus later on through breast-feeding.
But infant formula, the only alternative to breast feeding, carries its own problems in the Third World: It's expensive, it requires clean water, and it often goes against cultural mores. Moreover, it marks the mothers of bottle-fed babies as HIV positive.
"Nobody has a very clear cut answer," said Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, the United Nations agency that monitors the global AIDS pandemic.
Each year, an estimated 600,000 children, most in Africa, acquire the AIDS virus from their HIV-infected…
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