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Nature Medicine 14, 698 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0708-698a

Extra drugs and slower weaning lowers HIV risk for newborns

Virginia Hughes1

  1. New York

Two new studies have shed light on how altering breast-feeding practices and drug delivery could help reduce the rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission in poor nations. Experts say the new results will have serious implications for future updates to policy guidelines on HIV and infant feeding by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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