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• U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
  Andrew Jacobs, NY Times, July 8, 2018 A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly. Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes. Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.
• Why The U.N. Is Being Sued Over Haiti's Cholera Epidemic
  Richard Knox, NPR, March 21, 2016 A study, which appears this month in Emerging Infectious Diseases, indicates Haiti's official count of cholera cases and deaths are a big understatement. . . . Poor sanitation at a U.N. camp for peacekeepers allowed cholera-contaminated sewage to enter a tributary of Haiti's largest river, the Artibonite. . . . The disease subsequently spread to the entire country.