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Yes, the phenomenon is certainly world wide. A part of the discourse of modernity and consumerism in 3rd world, and not only 3rd world countries. Note morbid, just realistic. mike On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>wrote: > Mike > In other 3rd world countries, there were big billboards of happy families > (with a baby) celebrating Coca Cola. Mothers thought this meant that Coke > was good for babies, and fed them this ... . > > In SA schools girls are taught that formula is good for babies, but it is > very expensive, so they dilute it and their children fail to thrive. They > also don't sterilise the bottles properly, which brings in infection. There > is however information on how to deal with diarrhoea. HIV/Aids has also > complicated the picture, with mother-child transmission. In SA there is > still high mortality between 0-5 years, varying of course across different > communities. But we don't have the custom (such as in Malawi) of having lots > of children because about half of them are going to die. > > Sorry to be so morbid on a Sunday evening. > > Carol > > On 16 May 2010 18:54, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In Liberia infant mortality rate was particularly high around schools. >> Why? >> The girls were convinced to use similac instead of breastfeeding. Lacking >> money, but seeking to "do right by their babies" they substituted the >> water >> used to rinse rice for similac and bottle fed their babies. The water, >> being >> contaminated, increased already prevalent diarrhea and dehydration and >> death. >> >> Some call it progress. >> mike >> >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> wrote: >> >> > On May 15, 2010, at 6:22 PM, mike cole wrote: >> > >> > Any idea of the infant mortality rate among the Kogi? Seems like it >> might >> > be a little difficult to make it past a couple of months! (Among the >> Kpelle >> > when i worked in Liberia it was about 50%, but that owing to high levels >> of >> > malaria and nasty water, and of course, no money to buy prophylactic >> > medicines. Extreme poverty makes for very different imaginaries. >> > mike >> > >> > >> > I don't know the infant mortality rate, but it would be interesting to >> know >> > how such events are understood. I have heard the infant malnutrition >> rate is >> > high. But the cause of that seems to be not poverty of the life style >> per >> > se, but accommodations forced on the Kogi. Their territory has been >> reduced >> > so that now they have only high mountain terrain to farm. And they have >> been >> > somehow convinced to consume foodstuffs that are not part of their >> > traditional cultivation, and which have lower nutritional value. >> > >> > Martin >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> > > > > -- > WORK: > Visiting Researcher > Wits School of Education > HOME > 6 Andover Road > Westdene > Johannesburg 2092 > 011 673 9265 082 562 1050 > > _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca