The most striking thing for me in this photo is the mom. Look at her face. How much food is there in her household? How far is that tin having to go (if it is formula) - how many others in the home is it feeding? What is the powder being mixed with? What source of water does she have? How far does the mom have to go to fetch the water? How much energy has she got for fetching, boiling, mixing? Is there refrigeration? How far is she from a clinic / health worker so that she can take the baby for treatment of opportunistic infections? In this country, we'd need to investigate if the mom is perhaps feeding a dairy blend (the stuff that you stick in coffee to make it look milky). These are off the top of my head on a Sunday morning - I'm sure there are many more that we can come up with. > We all know that although its NOT the best, babies do ok on > regular formula and dont die from it like this little girl did . . . Unfortunately, they do here - I think gastro is our number one killer. -------------------------------------------------- Lynn Moony Johannesburg, South Africa [log in to unmask]