[HIV transmission from child to mother during breast feeding]

Out of 6 mothers breast-feeding their parenterally infected children in Elista and having no other factors of HIV infection, 3 were found to have antibodies to HIV, as well as 4 women who breast-fed their children dead in the focus of infection, but not examined. Pronounced stomatitis in children and cracks on their mothers' nipples were additional factors leading to HIV infection of mothers.