Breast-feeding guidelines: an implementation puzzle. Experts say there is no easy solution.
The WHO is attempting to provide guidance in the thorny dilemma faced by many HIV-positive women: should they breast-feed and risk transmission to their infant, or should they use substitute nutrition which may place their infant at greater risk of dying within the first year?
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