Just made a stop at the website of the National Women's Health Information
Center, sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Resources.
http://www.4woman.gov/

And it was good to see that our Ad Campaign is prominently displayed in the
center of the page, "Babies were Born to be Breastfed."  But then I was rather
curious watching the marquee to the right of center.  I guess it's a marquee
that rolls down instead of across the page (maybe that isn't called a
marquee??).  Anyway what stood out was the  news to the right  of our Ad
Campaign--"Analysis Shows Infants of Mothers Infected With HIV Face Nearly Constant Risk for
HIV Infection for Duration of Breastfeeding Previously, Reseachers Thought
Risk Diminished As Infants Grew Older."

WOW.  Now let me see maybe we should we rename our US Ad Campaign to Babies
were Born to Breastfed except babies of hiv positive mothers.  Let me see.  In
the USA, most mothers who are hiv positive don't breastfeed because most/all
health care providers discourage breastfeeding. And statistically hiv/aids is
decreasing in the USA.  Yet the most news worthy issue at this website is
hiv/aids and breastfeeding?  I don't get it.  With one breathe we say babies were
born to be breastfed but with the next breathe we are saying that of course
there are certain diseases in which babies are not born to be breastfed.  If the
Read et al paper on which this news release was based was not so flawed, it
wouldn't seem so jarring.  But I find it rather eye-opening that the Department
of Health thinks that the most news worthy item is about hiv/aids when there
is alot of research on human milk components and its wonders.  Why doesn't the
US Department of Health put on this marquee as news worthy, "their" patent on
human lactoferrin?  I guess that isn't news to them.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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