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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/22/AR2007072201
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In Botswana, Step to Cut AIDS Proves a Formula for Disaster
By Craig Timberg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, July 23, 2007; Page A01
NKANGE, Botswana -- Doctors noticed two troubling things about the limp,
sunken-eyed children who flooded pediatric wards across Botswana during the
rainy season in early 2006: They were dying from diarrhea, a malady that is
rarely fatal here. And few of their mothers were breast-feeding, a practice
once all but universal.
After the outbreak was over and at least 532 children had died -- 20 times
the usual toll for diarrhea -- a team of U.S. investigators solved the
terrible riddle.
A decade-long, global push to provide infant formula to mothers with the
AIDS virus had backfired in Botswana, leaving children more vulnerable to
other, more immediately lethal diseases, the U.S. team found after
investigating the outbreak at the request of Botswana's government.
etc.
This story is one probably most of you are familiar with, but interesting to
see it written up.
--the thing I find truly shocking are the comments people have left on the
message board.
Magda Sachs
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