http://www.redflagsweekly.com/Thursday_report/2002_august22.html

> August 22, 2002
> 
> America : The Land of HIV-Free Milk and Honey
> 
> Results of New Study Say "Let HIV+ Mothers Care for Their Babies"
> 
> By Cory Mermer
> RFW Associate Editor
> 
> Breastfeeding can save your baby¹s life and should be practiced if at all
> possibleŠBreastfeeding is too dangerous and MUST be avoided at all costs.
> 
> The above statements are quite obviously diametrically opposed to one another.
> Yet these two statements represent the advice currently given to mothers who
> test positive for HIV, the virus widely reported to be responsible for the
> AIDS epidemic. 
> 
> How is this possible? The answer is simple. It depends on your address, of
> course! 
> 
> If that doesn¹t make much sense to you, then GOODŠyou are among the seemingly
> small number of people with the ability to think for yourself!

<snip>

The article above appears on the health news analysis site Red Flag Weekly.
The conclusion is that perhaps women in third world countries are getting
better advice than women in North America.

-- Jodine Chase

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