Acceptability, Feasibility and Viral, Nutritional, Immunologic and Microbiologic Safety of Flash-Heated Treatment of Breast Milk: Preventing Postnatal Transmission of HIV Through Modifying Breast-Feeding Practices in Developing Countries

Reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS will be the main objective of the project. For HIV-infected mothers, formula feeding is recommended due to the risk of HIV-transmission through breast-feeding. Formula feeding presents certain difficulties in low-resource settings such as Sub-Saharan Africa. In these areas, flash heat-treatment of breast-milk could be one of the potential feeding alternatives to stop postnatal transmission of HIV. Mothers can implement the method using simple equipment over an outdoor fire or in the kitchen.