Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Published in Int Breastfeed J on October 26, 2010

Authors

Absera T Koricho1, Karen Marie Moland, Astrid Blystad

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health Officers, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia. abserak@yahoo.com.

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