Yes, HIV positive mothers can safely breastfeed their babies

WHO advises HIV positive mothers to take anti-retroviral drugs and breastfeed their babies until they are one year. [PHOTO: COURTESY]

NAIROBI: Lucy Mukami, 23, exclusively breastfed her three children for six months despite being HIV positive.

The children aged eight, three and six months went for the confirmatory HIV test and were declared negative.