This week's TIME Magazine has another dumb comment about breastfeeding,
making it sound like formula is a risk-free option.  It's about 5 pages from
the end (don't have my copy handy) and says something along the lines of
"There's no longer any debate about whether an HIV-positive mother should
breastfeed or bottle-feed, since a new article in a medical journal shows a
10% risk of transmitting HIV to a child by breastfeeding, with the greatest
risk being in the first 5 months."  No mention of alternatives (wet nurse,
milk bank, expressing and treating mother's own milk) and certainly no
mention of relative risk of using formula vs. 10% risk of passing on HIV,
and no mention of treatments to reduce transfer, or of new research showing
much lower transfer if breastfeeding is exclusvie (so gut mucosa is intact).
Please, all those so inclined, read the article and then send a letter or
email to TIME.  They are consistently anti-breastfeeding.

Kathy Dettwyler

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