-Good morning. What can I do for you today?
- I’m not sure if I should breastfeed my baby or not when he is born. I'm worried the baby might get HIV.
- Well now, the situation is this. Approximately 5–15% of mothers who are HIV-positive transmit the virus through breastfeeding. However, the rate varies in different places. It may be higher if the mother has acquired the infection recently or has a high viral load or symptomatic AIDS.
If you have unsafe sex while you are breastfeeding, you can pick up HIV and then you are more likely to transmit it to your baby.
However, if you don’t breastfeed, your baby may be at risk of other potentially deadly illnesses such as gastrointestinal and respiratory infections.
Now, you have left it very late to come for counselling, so if I were you, I would decide ...
- Oh.
-Good morning. What can I do for you today?
- I’m not sure if I should breastfeed my baby or not when he is born. I'm worried the baby might get HIV.
- Well now, the situation is this. Approximately 5–15% of mothers who are HIV-positive transmit the virus through breastfeeding. However, the rate varies in different places. It may be higher if the mother has acquired the infection recently or has a high viral load or symptomatic AIDS.
If you have unsafe sex while you are breastfeeding, you can pick up HIV and then you are more likely to transmit it to your baby.
However, if you don’t breastfeed, your baby may be at risk of other potentially deadly illnesses such as gastrointestinal and respiratory infections.
Now, you have left it very late to come for counselling, so if I were you, I would decide ...
- Oh.