http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/22/AR2007072201 
204.html?referrer=emailarticle 

In Botswana, Step to Cut AIDS Proves a Formula for Disaster 

By Craig Timberg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, July 23, 2007; Page A01 

NKANGE, Botswana -- Doctors noticed two troubling things about the limp, 
sunken-eyed children who flooded pediatric wards across Botswana during the 
rainy season in early 2006: They were dying from diarrhea, a malady that is 
rarely fatal here. And few of their mothers were breast-feeding, a practice 
once all but universal. 

After the outbreak was over and at least 532 children had died -- 20 times 
the usual toll for diarrhea -- a team of U.S. investigators solved the 
terrible riddle. 

A decade-long, global push to provide infant formula to mothers with the 
AIDS virus had backfired in Botswana, leaving children more vulnerable to 
other, more immediately lethal diseases, the U.S. team found after 
investigating the outbreak at the request of Botswana's government. 

etc. 

This story is one probably most of you are familiar with, but interesting to 
see it written up. 

 --the thing I find truly shocking are the comments people have left on the 
message board. 

Magda Sachs

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