Question

If a pregnant women is HIV positive and she is treated with medicines to deliver a normal child,can she transfer the HIV virus back to her normal HIV free child by colostrum?

Answer 1

Although, AIDS causing virus called HIV can transmit from mother to child through breastfeeding also, but it has beeen researched that colustrum which ​is the milk produced during the initial few days of lactation, rich in antibodies, can protect new – born babies from AIDS virus.