USAID's Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project

Summary: These journal articles, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and The Lancet, describe the training methods and courses used for the HIV Vertical Transmission Study, a large, non-randomized intervention cohort study conducted in South Africa to investigate postnatal HIV transmission associated with infant feeding modes.

• Breast health problems are rare in both HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women who receive counseling and support for breast-feeding in South Africa
• Infant feeding counselling for HIV-infected and uninfected women: appropriateness of choice and practice
• Mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 infection during exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months of life: an intervention cohort study