Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the updated national recommendations and guidelines for HIV and infant feeding.
• Describe the maternal and infant health benefits of infant feeding.
• Discuss actual and perceived barriers to successful infant feeding with HIV.

Ciarra “Ci Ci” Brown is an international maternal and family wellness advocate/activist dedicated to advancing the right to bodily and parental autonomy for women with HIV and their families as they navigate the lives they envision for themselves. As a woman with HIV who has birthed two children (and breastfed one) who are HIV-negative while living in the United States and in the role of director of programs at The Well Project, Ci Ci has become a respected and highly sought after advocate, speaker, expert, and facilitator in the HIV community and beyond. 

Olivia G. Ford has been engaged with HIV-related media since 2007. She is the editorial director for The Well Project, a primarily web-based information, support, research, and advocacy resource serving a global audience of women living with HIV. She has previously held leadership positions with Positive Women's Network - USA and at TheBody/TheBodyPro; and consulted with organizations such as Echoing Ida, HIV Justice Network, InPartnership, and the Sero Project. She has also served as a perinatal health advocate with Birthmark Doula Collective, a birth justice organization supporting pregnant and parenting people and their families in the New Orleans, Louisiana area. Her writing has appeared in Black AIDS Weekly, Positively Aware, POZ, Rewire, and TheBody/TheBodyPro, among other outlets.