WAR ON WANT was founded in the early Fifties as a campaign to make worldpoverty an urgent social and political issue.Today it is one of the major Third
World aid agencies
in Britain, though its original purpose remains central.Through its International Department, War on Want undertakes development workin Africa, Asia and South America; and, in co-operation with other aid agencies,participates in disaster relief. Long-term development strategy is plannedthrough research at home and observation in the field,
In
Britain War on Want’s 60 groups help by raising funds and actively campaign-ing on Third World issues in their localities.Its
40
medical centres collectunwanted medical and surgical supplies for shipment to hospitals and clinicsoverseas.
The baby killer
A War on Want investigation into the promotion and sale of powderedbaby milks in the Third World.By Mike
Muller
March 1974Published and printed by
War on Want,
467 Caledonian Road,London N7
9BE.
Copyright
@
1974 by War on Want and Mike
Muller
Thanks are due to New Internationalist magazine and their staff who first drewattention to the subject and encouraged War on Want to investigate further.Particularly to Hugh
Geach
who did the initial work for New Internationalist andmade his material available to us,Thanks also to the doctors and professionals in other fields who gave theirtime and advice, especially to Dr. David Morley of the Tropical Child HealthUnit at London University’s institute of Child Health, who made many helpfulsuggestions as well as reading the draft of this report.Certain of the companies involved have also been very patient in explainingtheir
view
of the situation.In particular, Dr. H.
Muller
and Mr. G.
Fookes
of
Nestles
Dietetics Division gave me a great deal of their time, as did Mr.
l.
Barter of Unigate’s international Division.These gentlemen are policy makersin their organisations and where quotations are attributed simply to Nestles orCow and Gate they are from interviews with them.War on Want is one of many Third World charities indebted to certain of themilk companies for donations of infant foods and other products for relief
pro-
grammes.
In
disasters and other
abnormal
situations, these products can beextremely useful.
We
may be accused of “biting the hand that feeds” with thisreport, but our responsibility lies with the communities in which we work.
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