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Magda Sachs <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:16:35 -0000
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>WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) Jan 23 - A high proportion of new mothers do
not know that HIV can be transmitted through breast feeding >snip<
The authors found that 20% of the women had "considerable distrust of
government and the scientific community regarding the HIV-AIDS epidemic."
>snip<  The authors conclude that women, especially those who have not
completed
high school, require public health efforts to increase HIV knowledge and to
build trust with public health authorities.<

What public health efforts are 'required' for doctors to take on board the
research which suggests that breastfeeding 'style' may be crucial to the
transmission risk of HIV via breastfeeding?  The tone of this -- that women
are somehow the 'problem' because they mistrust doctors is pretty
incredible.  Here in the UK in the last two months we have had further cases
brought against a GP (general practitioner) who seems to have murdered at
least 230 of his patients, we have learned that many of our hospitals are of
a poor standard of cleanliness and 5,000 people in the UK die each year from
infections caught in hospitals, and have just received news of a shocklingly
gruesome report about the way organs of young children have systematically
been removed and stored without parental consent being sought.  I won't even
say anything about why it might not be a sign of irrationality to mistrust
or distrust the government.

When the research evidence on HIV transmission through breastfeeding is
still so partial and contested, I found the tone of this abstract (yes, I
know it isn't the paper) chilling, infuriating and very worrying.

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK

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