Tuesday

lack of breastfeeding = dead babies

According to Ugandan officials, as many as 4,000 Ugandan babies die each and every day because THEY ARE NOT BREASTFED.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

4000 a day? Seems high. That's 1.46 million a year. According to unicef there were only 1.4 million births there in 2004.

Don't get me wrong. I would guess that thousands die each year, just not 1.46 million.

Anonymous said...

My sense is that they are dying for a lot of reasons, perhaps not having enough food, but that is not the whole story.