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Originally Posted by emma1325  And giving a vaccine does not interfere with their rituals at all? Seems to me that if they weren't giving the shot before, and now they are, then the ritual has been altered. Why not explain basic sanitation for newborns?
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Its not that simple. In some cases there is NO alternative. Untill you've lived in compleat poverty you can't know what its like.
The only ritual changed here is the unintentional one, the one where these babies die horrible, and painful deaths that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
These Mothers LOVE their babies just as much as you and I. They simply live a VERY different life. Saying their blood is on their hands, or its their own fault, as I have read some people say, its downright nasty and unexceptable. These people don't know any better, it takes time for that. NO mother deserves to see their baby die. EVER.
In many of these situations, clean water is just not avalible, clean medical equitment isn't avalible, often times there is no doctors availible, many live in single room dwellings where animals can easily go. There is no sanitation avalible.
Yes education should and is done. But thing can not be done over night. Untill the poverty these people live in is eliminated vaccinations are their best hope for their children to live.
For them the risk of the desease is a lot worse then the risk of a vaccine. This is how it once was here too. But we don't remember that because poverty like this is not often seen in our countries (I say that cause I am not from the US)
: and that there are questionable hygene practices, I have to say I think for these moms the Vaccines ARE better then the alternative.
) but here is a case where I think a vaccine does more good than harm.
