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Can someone please advise the implications/complications of mothers trying to breast feed newborns with low birth weight, when they themselves have been/are chronically malnourished and live under the trauma of daily bombing by the US and GB. joyce bacon ----------------------- Jennifer Horan wrote: > > This last weekend there was an organizing conference in Ann Arbor, > Michigan, here in the USA. Among the attendees was Dr. Richard Garfield, > the Columbia University-based epidemologist and authority on the civilian > impact of embargoes. > > He stated that the Iraqi govt could significantly reduce infant mortality > (and perhaps child, I'm not sure) if it took the following simple steps: > > 1) encouraged people to boil water; > > 2) withdrew infant formula from the ration packet. > > He said that these changes could more easily be made in a country where the > government broadcasts into virtually every home via radio and television. > In less industrially developed countries where water born diseases are a > problem this is not the case. > > I note that UNICEF head Carol Bellamy in her visit to Iraq again prevailed > upon the govt to remove the formula, which was first introduced two years > ago over the vociferous objections of the agency. > > I have not seen any public discussion of these issues anywhere and think > they need to be clarified for us anti-sanctions activists to get a grip on > what's going on in that country. > > Sincerely, > > Jennifer Horan > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. > To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT > the whole list. Please do not send emails with attached files to the list > *** Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html *** -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Please do not send emails with attached files to the list *** Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html ***