I agree with carol's post and particularly her praise of Magda et al's e-mail
letter to the BMJ.  But I do have a problem with one of carol's comments.
That comment was in regard to mothers in developed countries such as the US
"with HIV don't especially want to breastfeed anyway."  Is it that they don't
want to breastfeed?  Or is it that women are being threatened with loss of
custody of their infants if they make such a choice?  The Tyson case is a
good example of a mother diagnosed hiv-positive who wanted to breastfeed and
was forced by the State to formula-feed.  Currently, in the US, mothers who
are diagnosed as hiv-positive(there are 60 known conditions that can make one
test positive including pregnancy!)are told not to breastfeed.  Let us not
mistake force for choice.  Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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