Horizon 1 1 17 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES Breast-feeding : early influences on later health Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 319-329 2009 fdi:010048287 ENG ISI:000262259000023 639 10.1007/978-1-4020-8749-3_23 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010048287 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2009/compl2/010048287.pdf Horizon (IRD) The importance of breast-feeding for infant and child health and survival in less developed countries has been the subject of a number of studies over the last 25 years.1_9 However, the epidemic of AIDS in low-income countries, together with the discovery of an important risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 through breast-milk,10 has prompted renewed interest in this subject. Indeed, in order to weigh the mortality risks associated with different infant feeding practices against the risk of mother-to-child transmission of the virus, it is essential to have precise estimates of relative risk of death of non-breastfed infants within narrow age intervals. 054 UR024