RE: [pronut-hiv] Wet nursing a much safer option than breastmilk substitute feeding (3)

["George M. Carter" <fiar@verizon.net>]

At 01:11 PM 4/12/2006, you wrote:

>Marie -- Is there evidence is to support the conclusion that "Wet
>nursing is a much safer option than breast milk substitute feeding"?

You know what? There probably isn't. And most mothers in Africa probably 
have to just take their chances or let their baby die.

The mothers are not perusing the data. They're not forcing the wet nurse to get tested every other week. They're probably just trying to not die 
themselves.

Mainly because most people STILL don't have access to ARVs. And a lot of 
them that do may get an appetite back but then there's nothing to eat.

Not everyone--not all HIV+ folks are that poor. But a lot.

It's not time to waste a lot of money on the epidemiology of wet nurses. 
It's time to get more food to people. More clean water.

Not through privatizing the water either.

It's time to assert labor laws and rights to make it WORTHWHILE to be a 
nurse or doctor in Zambia. Rather than head to the US or the UK.

It's time for PEPFAR to give its funds to GFATM--and its time for GFATM to 
have a shake up.

It's time for MORE GENERIC ARVs--and maybe use eminent domain when the 
Pfizers and Abbotts screw people to death while regurgitating some 
non-nutritional pabulum about what they're gonna offer knowing they'll 
break yet another promise.

It's time for George W. Bush and his cohort to resign in disgrace.

It's time for a lot of things.

But mostly, it'll just be what it has always been.

A time to die.
George M. Carter