Hi Marit

I agree with Karleen that it's safest to assume that the translation, or 
journalist, was at fault.

Just wanted to check this with you:
<<Only 2[%] of children under 6 months are breastfed. >>

Please make sure to add *exclusively* breastfed (a chance for you to inform 
the editor how this is important, but it must be explained).    In Chad, it 
seems that breastfeeding is accepted for a fairly "long" time (65% of babies 
up till 23 months), but it is evidently supplemented from birth for whatever 
cultural reasons.  And yes, that's probably why babies die.

Jacquie Nutt
(Suddenly asked to attend this week's international "Countdown to 2015" 
Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, 
and fretting about getting up to scratch with all the issues)


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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