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Alice,
I hear you! How about sending those students to undergo a 3-week
internship to Kibera? - nothing like first hand observation to
explode those comfortably privileged prejudices?? This is when you
realize that promotion of infant feeding choice is immoral.
Pamela (who grew up in Kenya...)
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Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 21:46:01 +0200
From: Alice Farrow <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Fact of the day
Pat, I have just done a health science module with the Open
University UK, for my IBCLC exam prerquisites - in particular we
studied water and health and the illnesses caused by lack of access
to clean water. We studied Kibera, the Kenyan slum (circa 170,000
people) where the health clinics don't even have running water - I
saw video footage of just buckets on the floor for hand washing.
Unfortunately, despite studied infant malnutrition and diahoerreal
diseases, breastfeeding was just not mentioned. I brought this up on
our student forum and was basically 'slammed' by a few other
students -'how do you expect malnourished mothers to feed infants
etc.'. These are the health care workers of the future. We need to
impact university texts and curriculums....
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