Living with HIV/AIDS and Infant feeding: An Interactive Community Health Dialogue

Women’s choice of infant feeding method is a social, cultural, and emotional issue that must be understood in relationship to mothers’ social and cultural position as well as her HIV status. Given that women of childbearing years are the fastest growing group of persons who are infected with HIV, with over-representation of women from HIV endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, raising awareness of this issue in the immigrant community is warranted

Dr Josephine Etowa, Loyer-DaSilva Research Chair in Public Health Nursing, at the University of Ottawa will host an interactive Immigrant Community Health Dialogue on the cultural and criminalization tensions associated with living with HIV/AIDS while infant feeding. This interactive session will facilitate the development of strategic direction of work in the area.