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Guideline: infant feeding in areas of Zika virus transmission [Internet]. 2nd edition. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021.

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Guideline: infant feeding in areas of Zika virus transmission [Internet]. 2nd edition.

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5RESEARCH GAPS

The Guideline Development Group identified important knowledge gaps that need to be addressed through primary research, which may affect these recommendations. More research is needed related to the resources, feasibility, acceptability and equity of modifying the feeding of infants affected by complications associated with Zika virus and on the type of additional support to provide to caregivers of these infants, since no direct evidence was found. The following questions were identified as requiring urgent priority:

  • determining the viral load needed for the infection to pass through breast-milk;
  • understanding the views of pregnant women, mothers, family members, health-care practitioners, policy-makers and health-care providers (midwives) on infant feeding when there is a risk of potentially transmissible Zika virus;
  • how breastfeeding or feeding breast-milk to infants from a lactating woman infected with Zika virus affects health equity;
  • evaluating the acceptability or feasibility of breastfeeding or feeding of breast-milk among infants from a lactating woman infected with Zika virus;
  • how infant feeding modifications affects important infant outcomes among those affected by complications associated with Zika virus and evaluating the resources, feasibility, acceptability and equity of these modifications; and
  • how additional support and follow-up for caregivers affects improving infant feeding among those affected by complications associated with Zika virus and evaluating the resources, feasibility, acceptability, continuity and equity of this support.

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