I have been pondering for some time about how we can get Bill Gates and the 
Gates Foundation interested in the issues of lactation.
The Gates Foundation seems to be geared to preventing diseases that we 
shoud be able to prevent with technologies already available; things like 
figuring out how to stop the spread of malaria. How can we convince them 
that one of the ways toward improving the world's health is through getting 
everyone breastfeeding?
The Gates FOundation also is involved in AIDS. WOuld they be interested in 
the results of the research that infants if HIV positive mothers in developing 
contries are less likely to contract AIDS if exclusively breastfed?

What about all of those GOOGLE folks? Do they have a foundation that is 
trying to find a direction to spend their gazzillions of dollars? I really think that 
we need to work on the phillanthropic organizations to get behind 
breastfeeding.

A couple of years ago I did a search on a phillanthropy database looking for 
funding for a project. It was nearly impossible to find any sources when 
breastfeeding or lactation were used as search criteria. How do we get these 
workds to become part of the vocabulary of these organizations?

I believe that this is an angle that we as a profession could explore some more.

Hoping for sources for future research...
Loretta Porta, RN, BSN, IBCBC
Merced, CA

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