>"So for virtually no expense an HIV-positive mother can
>provide her baby with all the benefits of breast milk without exposing the
>infant to HIV"

Unless, of course, one counts the expense of expressing the
milk, heating the milk, cooling the milk, possibly carrying fuel to heat the
milk, feeding the milk in some way that involves cleaning *that* device -
is all that considered expensive only if a man does it??  Whoever is
responsible for a flip comment like this needs to be put in charge of a
goat for a day - one that needs to be milked and the milk pasteurized
and fed to a kid 8-12 times a day - and then let's hear him talk
about the expense of repeating that job daily for 180 days.

Anyone truly concerned about expense would be putting huge energy into
bigger and longer versions of the Coutsoudis study showing exclusive bfing
to be protective against HIV.  Now *there's* an inexpensive solution to the
problem!

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY

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