Episode 43: Marian Tompson
November 18th, 2011
Marian Tompson is one of the world’s leading advocates of breastfeeding, including by HIV-positive women. She was a founder of La Leche League in 1956 and entered the AIDS debate in the late 1990s with the founding of AnotherLook.org.
David Crowe and guest host Elizabeth Ely interview Marian for about an hour, talking about the evidence of HIV transmission through breast milk, and also about the use of antiretroviral drugs by pregnant and nursing women, and by infants.