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  HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition security: from evidence to action

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This book, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), describes the interactions between HIV, AIDS, and food and nutrition security and outlines the implications for food and nutrition-relevant policy.
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  Antenatal care in developing countries: promises, achievements and missed opportunities

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This report, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO), analyses patterns and trends in antenatal care use, using data drawn from household surveys carried out in developing countries from 1990 to 2001.
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  Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming.
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  HIV, breastfeeding, and infant mortality: weighing the impact of the non-evidenced-based WHO/UNAIDS recommendations in the low-income, low-resource countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

  African Networks for Health Research and Development, 2001

  This paper challenges the WHO/UNAIDS recommendations regarding breastfeeding and HIV positive mothers in low-income, low-resource countries.The paper shows that although almost all paediatric HIV is due to maternal to child transmission (MTCT), in 1992, WHO/UNAIDS recommended that breastfeeding should be advised for pregnant women, including those who are HIV+, in countries with high infant mor
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  Pasteurized breastmilk as a replacement feed for babies of HIV-infected mothers

  ProNUTRITION, 2003

  This short report offers a guide for mothers demonstrating how they can use their own milk for their babies, while simultaneously avoiding any risk of post-partum transmission of the virus to their babies through breastfeeding. The two methods shown are flash-boiling and pretoria pasteurization