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Giving daily antiretroviral syrup to breastfeeding infants or treating their HIV-infected mothers with highly active antiretroviral drugs is safe and effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission through breast milk, a study led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill investigators has found. “This is an exciting development,” said Charles van der Horst, M.D., a professor in the UNC School of Medicine and the study’s lead investigator.

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