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The Well Project asked A Girl Like Me blogger Heather O’Connor about breastfeeding as a woman living with HIV in the United States.

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Both cases involve mothers with an undetectable, or at least very low, viral load transmitting HIV to their babies.

The evidence remains inconclusive, with a few reports of women with a very low viral load transmitting HIV to their babies.

This is according to extended follow-up of a trial that gave HIV-positive breast-feeding mothers treatment or prophylaxis for their infant.

An unacceptably high rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV still occurs in many African nations, often through breast feeding.

HIV-positive breast-feeding mothers can nearly eliminate the risk of transmitting HIV to their babies by taking ARVs.

A considerable proportion of those offered the HIV prevention method went on Truvada when offered it before, during or after pregnancy.

Just 4 percent of children born to HIV-positive mothers contract the virus by 18 months of age.

HIV-positive breast-feeding mothers on antiretroviral treatment nearly eliminate their risk of transmitting the virus to their babies.

Epivir (lamivudine) and Viread (tenofovir) are likely safe for women to use while breast-feeding.

Scientists have identified a protein in breast milk that may be a key reason why most HIV-positive mothers don’t transmit the virus to their b...