--not all children born to HIV pos mothers are HIV pos --those not HIV pos are at risk to contract HIV by breastfeeding
Otherwise these recommendations don't make sense. Before framing an argument it's important to find out what percentage of kids born to HIV pos mothers become HIV pos (I assume it's high) and what percentage of healthy kids contract HIV by breastfeeding (I assume it's low).
You're also saying that the black community perceives any information about HIV from whitey as ipso facto a lie. In that case, I'm not sure if there's any remedy.
So a little more data?
Joanna
Grace Loehr (by way of info at pulpculture.org) wrote:
> Hey all,
> (I forget if this email goes to Kelley or the entire list -- I'd like
> it to go to the entire list) What's that "new" economic theory I read
> about in the recent past ... the one that proves that people don't
> make economic and purchasing choices based on rational choice, but on
> other, nonrational, emotional factors? I want to mention this in
> context of discussing women's reproductive rights in the context of
> having HIV infection for a presentation I have at school. (Which I'm
> petrified about as I have no public speaking experience)
>
> The "official" CDC recommendation is that HIV infected women NOT have
> children or breastfeed, and health care providers telling pts this can
> be devastating and have the opposite effect, esp. with black pts, for
> whom memory of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study is still alive. White hcp's
> telling black pts these things are clueless about how their words are
> heard. There are conspiracy theories and genocide theories abounding
> in the black community about HIV (the gov't created it to decimate
> black people; the gov't is withholding treatment from blacks; &c)
> similar to other conspiracy/genocide theories vis a vis the public
> health system, health care system, and the black population.
>
> Any suggestions on ethical or other ideas to use with this topic?
>
> Grace
>
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