How serious
is mother to child HIV/AIDS infection scenario in remote localities of inland
Tanzania?
How is such
data gathered?, how would one designate a questionnaire if such an approach was
chosen and the target population was an innocent ,remotely located, down to
earth farming community who never read a newspaper, watch a TV, or listen to the
radio?
Now picture
this:
It is quite
common practice in certain communities in some parts of central Tanzania where most
pastoralists cum herdsmen tribes live to find a woman breastfeeding up to four
different babies one being her own and the rest of three other women who are
married to the brothers of her husband. This is done so as to let the other
mothers free to attend to field work for the day so turns are taken day by day among
the mothers to suckle all the babies in order to have the others available for
work. Isn’t this a sure way of distributing an infection to the kids in an
equal share in case one of the mothers is infected?
How can this
behavior be changed so far away from towns where all the buzz about combating
HIV/AIDS is centered?
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