*HAMZULLAH KHAN, **ABDUL HAMEED

INTRODCUCTION

The risk of mother to child transmission is increased if a barest feeding mother is newly infected, owing to the initial high levels of virus. Preliminary evidence suggests that women who were HIV negative in the first year postpartum, and the risk continues in the second year. Mother to child transmission of HIV can occur before, during and after delivery, but only rarely in early pregnancy. Transmission of HIV through breast-feeding is well documented. One of the first report indicates the possibility of HIV transmission through breast milk was of breast fed infants of women who had been infected post-natally through blood transfusion or through heterosexual exposure. 2

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*Final year MBBS
**Professor and Head, Department of Paedoatrics
Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, Pakistan
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