Till about a decade back it was believed that mother-to-child transmission of HIV can happen in three ways during pregnancy labour and delivery or while breastfeeding. This is why HIV positive mothers who conceive and deliver babies when they are on antiretroviral therapy and other assisted procedures are asked not to breastfeed. Here is how to conceive a baby if both partners are HIV positive. However on 30 November 2009 World Health Organisation or WHO released new recommendations on infant feeding by HIV-positive mothers based on new studies. For the first time WHO recommended that HIV-positive mothers or their infants