What Killed Jane Austen?: And Other Medical Mysteries (22 page)

But there are many obstacles to the spread of effective contraception. For example, to promote their infant formulas, multinational companies are exploiting the fear of AIDS being transmitted by breast-feeding.

Reportedly it was pressure from the Vatican that removed birth control from the agenda at the Earth Summit in Rio.

Just as problems of children in the Third World are varied, but closely linked, so must be our efforts to relieve them. Priorities should include immunisation, family planning, female literacy, raising the status of women, and the relief of poverty.

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