Word: infantalizes
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...Thien - add up to "peaceful sky" in two languages. Pax means "peace" in Latin and the Vietnamese middle name means "sky." The name change was confirmed by the director of Tam Binh Orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, where the boy has lived since being abandoned as an infant...
...became pregnant shortly thereafter. "I want to get my GED or something, but I don't know how to go about it," she says. In the meantime, Jasmine spends her days in her mom's apartment, watching television, chatting on the phone with friends and caring for her infant daughter, Kaiyaree...
...northern coast of East Timor. Sometimes, the passengers inside the air-conditioned vehicles raise their hands in greeting, and Pereira, or one of her 10 children, waves back. But the occupants of the cars-owned by the government, the U.N. or other organizations that are helping to run this infant country, which gained independence from Indonesia in 2002-have never stopped to meet the Pereiras. If they did, they would find a family that has not eaten rice in three months because of shortages that have nearly tripled the price. The younger children are already showing signs of malnutrition...
...Nestlé South Africa has been asked by the South African health authorities to supply infant formula at reduced cost for their extremely important health program aimed at saving lives by preventing HIV transmission from mothers to babies. The health authorities have chosen NAN Pelargon, a biologically acidified formula that inhibits the growth of harmful bacteria in the prepared feed. The government buys the formula, following an official tendering process, at reduced prices and gives it to HIV-positive mothers who choose not to breastfeed their babies. We are pleased that the government has confidence in Nestl?...
...Nestlé does not advertise or promote infant formula products to mothers in developing countries. In fact, Nestlé employees who market infant formula have no direct contact at all with mothers in the developing world and no incentives are given to health workers for promoting Nestlé products. Nestlé’s marketing principles and practices comply with the laws of every country in which Nestlé does business, and Nestlé follows all countries’ implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes developed by the World Health Organization in 1981. Notably...