Resources for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV/AIDS

PMTCT strategic vision 2010-2015
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals

This publication reflects an important part of WHO's health sector response to HIV/AIDS and will contribute directly to the new Outcome framework of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

The purpose of this document is to define WHO's commitment to global and country support to scale up access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services and integrate these services with maternal, newborn and child health programmes. The objectives included in PMTCT strategic vision 2010–2015 illustrate WHO's ongoing commitment to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) goals on PMTCT and strengthening support for PMTCT within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).


Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV – November 2009  28 pages 219 kb
The new recommendations call for earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for adults and adolescents, the delivery of more patient-friendly antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), and prolonged use of ARVs to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. And, for the first time, WHO recommends that HIV-positive mothers or their infants take ARVs while breastfeeding to prevent transmission.

WHO HIV and Infant Feeding Technical Consultation - Held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV - Infections in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Infants 5 pages 274kb
Geneva, October 25-27, 2006 - Consensus Statement   World Health Organization,  Geneva, 13-15 May 2003

HIV and Infant Feeding - New evidence and programmatic experience  50 pages 491kb
Report of a Technical Consultation - held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team on Prevention of HIV Infections in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Infants (IATT) - 25-27 October 2006 - WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA

Let's Talk About HIV Counselling and Testing - Facilitators' guide    70 pages 429kb
Tools to build NGO/CBO capacity to mobilise communities for HIV counselling and testing
International HIV/AIDS Alliance - Frontiers Prevention Project

Handbook on Pædiatric AIDS in Africa    264 pages 2.9mb
by the African Network for the Care of Children Affected by AIDS (ANECCA)