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Early cessation of breastfeeding amongst women in South Africa: an area needing urgent attention to improve child health

BACKGROUND: Breastfeeding is a critical component of interventions to reduce child mortality. Exclusive breastfeeding practice is extremely low in South Africa and there has been no improvement in this over the past ten years largely due to fears of HIV transmission. Early cessation of breastfeeding...

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Autores principales: Doherty, Tanya, Sanders, David, Jackson, Debra, Swanevelder, Sonja, Lombard, Carl, Zembe, Wanga, Chopra, Mickey, Goga, Ameena, Colvin, Mark, Fadnes, Lars T, Engebretsen, Ingunn MS, Ekström, Eva-Charlotte, Tylleskär, Thorkild
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22827969
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-105