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Salma Hayek Breast Feeds an African Baby

Actress Salma Hayek opened up a whole new kind of breast-feeding debate in 2009 when a video of her nursing a hungry baby boy in Sierra Leone surfaced on YouTube. Hayek told ABC's Nightline that she fed the newborn in an effort to promote breast feeding in a region that has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world,

 mainly due to malnutrition. And while HIV transmission via breast feeding is a concern throughout Africa, and international health guidelines advise HIV-positive mothers to avoid breast feeding when an alternative source of nourishment is

"acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe," those conditions aren't often met in places like Sierra Leone where starvation is an immediate threat.

Hayek won praise for her mission, and the video prompted a wave of discussion over whether Western countries should be donating breast milk to nations in need instead of, or in addition to, infant formula.

There are several nonprofits that allow women to contribute milk, which is then screened for HIV and other diseases. But when it comes to getting milk to countries in crisis,

 like Haiti, there can be logistical barriers from lack of refrigeration to problems in transporting the milk safely.

SALMA HAYEK Breast Feeds A Hungry African Child | Actress Act Of Love !

SALMA HAYEK Breast Feeds A Hungry African Child



Hayek is the first Mexican national to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood since silent film actress Dolores del Río. She is also, after Fernanda Montenegro, the second of three Latin American actresses (the other being Catalina Sandino Moreno) to achieve a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

Salma Hayek nearly bursts out of her hard-working dress

Hollywood star Salma Hayek looked dangerously close to spilling out of her dress as she filmed the TV show 30 Rock in Brooklyn in New York City.

Salma Hayek's vibrant orange dress struggled to control her post-pregnancy curves as she filmed a TV show in New York

Salma with her daughter Valentina Pinault in between takes on the set of 30 Rock in New York