> HIV-positive asylum seeker wins free milk fight
>
> An asylum seeker mother who cannot breastfeed because she is HIV positive has
> won a key High Court battle for the legal right to free milk for her
> four-month-old baby girl.
>
> A judge allowed a legal challenge by "T", an Ethiopian, who cannot be
> identified for legal reasons, against a Government refusal to provide her with
> tokens to obtain formula milk.
>
> Sir Edwin Jowitt, sitting in London, ordered Home Secretary David Blunkett to
> reconsider the case, saying there had been a failure to take account of
> relevant considerations - including whether there was a real risk that T would
> suckle her daughter, referred to as S, and infect her with the Aids virus.

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