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Marit,
I'm guessing that the error has come in the translation and that what the
woman really said was that the tradition is to give babies under 6 months
other food and that they are dying because of this. I would suggest looking
for a quote from Unicef about babies dying because they are not exclusively
breastfed and quote the figues showing that very few babies are exclusively
breastfed in Chad and treat it as a misunderstanding (if the woman is a
social worker perhaps she really does have it wrong but give her the benefit
of the doubt).
Karleen Gribble
Australia
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From: "Marit Olanders" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 4:49 PM
Subject: exclusive bf in Chad?
> Yesterday a woman in Chad, Mama Jeanne Ahmad Duval, was interviewed in my
> local newspaper. She used to be employed by Chad's government, as a
> social worker (it doesn't seem to be publixshed on Internet - yet).
> She says, in translation from Swedish (which probably has been translated
> from French...): "I struggled for the children. I have seven children
> myself. Many poor people in Chad believe that you shouldn't give children
> under six months any food, apart from bereast milk. It is a tradition,
> but lots of children die because of this".
> I checked the figures on a Unicef site, http://www.unicef.org/
> infobycountry/chad_statistics.html Only 2 of children under 6 months are
> breasstfed. The literacy rate among girls and women age 15-24 is 23%, and
> among boys and men the same age 56 %.
> I would like to refute this extraordinary quote in a letter to the
> editor. However, it feels a bit presumptuous to sit here by my computer
> in my Swedish idyllic welfare an claim that this woan is wrong about the
> conditions in her own country.
> Could yoy help med with facts, please?
>
> Marit Olanders
> editor, Swedish bf magazine Amningsnytt
>
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