I must correct my recent post on the the website on the Breastfeeding Ad
Campaign and the  Read paper.  Read actually has two papers that were published
recently. One paper, the one I critiqued is in Pediatrics and I assumed that
this was the one posted next to the Breastfeeding Ad Campaign.  I didn't read
carefully.  Often researchers submit papers to a variety of journals, to increase
their chances of publication.  This other paper was published in the JID
(Journal of Infectious Disease.   I have only read the abstract from the JID and
don't know if this is a different research paper or just part of one massive
study.  This JID paper was done in collaboration with the Ghent Working Group on
HIV in Women and Children.

This doesn't change my mind in regard to the juxtaposition of this paper next
to the announcement of the US Breastfeeding Ad Campaign--Babies Were Born to
Breastfeed.  I still think that having those two announcements side by side
sabatoges the breastfeeding campaign.  It's like the infant formula ads,
"breastfeeding is best but..."  I can't imagine the infant formula industry allowing
their ads to sit side by side by anything that would make their product seem
unsafe (even though the use of infant formula has caused numerous infant deaths
over the years).

Since I have only read the abstract of this Read paper, I will not comment on
it.  I am fascinated by the confusion two such papers can create when
published in such close succession.  Particularly since one paper is written by Read
and a group of people (Committee on Pediatric AIDS--USA) and the other written
by Read and another group of people (Ghent Group--international in scope). Of
course maybe I am the only one confused by having 2 such papers circulating
at the same time :)
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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