New guidelines clear the way for HIV-positive people to breastfeed

Parents with HIV who want to breastfeed are now able to — with the blessing of their pediatrician — after a game-changing report was released this spring. The 11-page report, “Infant Feeding for Persons Living With and at Risk for HIV in the United States: Clinical Report” was published in the medical journal Pediatrics in May by Lisa Abuogi and Christiana Smith, both pediatricians [in the Section of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology] with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Lawrence Noble, a pediatrician at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai in New York.