Thanks, we’ve got a really awesome team effort going between Peter, Ankur, and myself. It has been a lot of fun pushing myself to read and think about these things on a daily basis. We hope it will continue to grow as a forum for student discussion about global health issues.

Considering that, I’d love to hear more about your experience dealing with the difficult issue of bottle vs breast feeding for HIV positive mothers. Have you engaged with your GlobeMed health partner on this issue? How have you thought through the problem, and do you have an opinion?

Its complex moral terrain, and the more that I think about it, the more trouble I have coming to a hard conclusion – other than the fact that the world is a messed up place if we cannot even find a way to get babies safe and nutritious formula. Unfortunately, that doesn’t get us very far very fast.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, and get a decent discussion going!

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Great post and depth to bring in ideas of economic justice as well. As Agnes Binagwaho shows, in the case of access to ARVs there was a fundamental lack of focus on the rights of people with AIDS. The two responses to Binagwaho though, don’t miss that point, but rather seem to suggest that it is not worth focusing on the issue of bottle feeding. I think there is a need to focus on bottle feeding, because it illustrates (just as access to ARVs did) what happens when the focus shifts away from a framework of human dignity and rights. Until there is a collective understanding of such a framework, I think the goal of eradicating poverty completely will find it hard to gain ground.