Global
Strategy for Infant and Young Child
Feeding :World
Health Assembly (WHA) and UNICEF adopted
the Global Strategy,which sets
five additional targets: national policy
on infant and young child feeding, community
outreach, information support, infant
feeding in difficult circumstances and
monitoring and evaluation.
Joint Action Plan for Women's and Children's Health by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki -moon click here
Comment on the Draft for Consultation " Investing in Our Common Future" Joint Action Plan for Women's and Children's Health by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki -moon click here
Every year the first week of August is celebrated as ‘World Breastfeeding Week (WBW). The objective is to focus attention on some important aspect of protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding. This year the theme is ‘Breastfeeding – Just 10 Steps! The Baby Friendly Way' . more>>
World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) Status of South Asia
World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) process has been completed in 32 Countries.
Afghanistan
Malawi
Argentina
Maldives
Bangladesh
Mexico
Bhutan
Mongolia
Brazil
Mozambique
Bolivia
Nepal
Cape Verde
Pakistan
China
Peru
Colombia
Philippines
Costa Rica
Republic of Korea
Dominican Republic
Sri Lanka
Ecuador
Taiwan
Gambia
Uganda
Ghana
Uruguay
India
Vietnam
Indonesia
Zambia
For assessment findings detailed reports and report card click here
The study which has been published in the New England Journal Of Medicine (17 June 2010) has concluded that 'All regimens of HAART from pregnancy through 6 months post partum resulted in high rates of virologic suppression, with an overall rate of mother-to-child transmission of 1.1%.' Please use this information to have an enhanced advocacy in your part of the world to strengthen breastfeeding counseling services for HIV positive mothers. click here World health assembly calls for ending of inappropriate promotion of baby foods,Press Release: World Health Assembly adopts two landmark Resolutions on the promotion of junk foods and baby foods, 21st May 2010 click hereStudy: Lack of breastfeeding costs lives, billions of dollars Miriam Falco, CNN Medical News Managing Editor
April 5, 2010 -- Updated 1406 GMT (2206 HKT) click here
Multinationals Break Vietnam Law in Formula Sales HANOI — Multinational companies in Vietnam sell baby formula so aggressively that they routinely stretch and sometimes break laws designed to promote breastfeeding, an AP investigation has found. --By BEN STOCKING /AP WRITER Monday, September 21, 2009 click here
Govt of Pakistan has notified the Breast feeding rule and regulationclick here
Colombo Declaration on Infant and Young Child Feedingclick here
The '3 in 1' Training Programme Capacity building initiative for building health workers' skills in infant and young child feeding counseling (Based on WHO and UNICEF's 3 courses on breastfeeding , complementary feeding and HIV infant feeding counseling.) click herePress release on Breastfeeding research by Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) website www.ntnu.no/news/breastfeeding : damaging the worldwide efforts to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.
Dr. Arun Gupta, gBICS Chairperson calls on Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) - to remove damaging statement on recent research about androgen levels and breastfeeding which has resulted in widespread media headlines seriously damaging the worldwide efforts to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. To read the full statement from Arun Gupta, pleaseclick here.
Rector Digernes' (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)response to Dr.Arun Gupta's letter regarding the press release on breastfeeding research.click here. Statement by WABA
Norwegian Research on Androgens and Breastfeeding
WABA's response to misleading information and unfounded claims. To read the full statement, please click here.
Research as an extreme sport
by Per Brandtzaeg, Professor, Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet :We have recently seen an example of the latter where communication has gone astray. A researcher from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has created confusion related to the conscientious work involved in motivating mothers to breastfeed their infants. Translated into English from the Norwegian newspaper VG., Debatt pp. 46-47, February 2, 2010. Click here for the full article.
Launch
of the global Breastfeeding
Initiative for Child
Survival: IBFAN marks
its 30th anniversary
find
out more http://www.ibfan.org/gbics.html
ONE
MILLION CAMPAIGN Press
release 23 May 2009:Voices
of 45000 People Reach
World Health Assembly
with a Call to Save
Newborn Lives more>>
The
gBICS is a worldwide
civil society-driven
initiative aiming to
accelerate progress
in attaining the health-related
Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) by 2015,
especially Goal 4, reduction
of child mortality,
by scaling up early,
exclusive and continued
breastfeeding.more>>
Important
Documents
Antiretroviral Regimens in Pregnancy
and Breast-Feeding in Botswana see the study >>
WHA
RESOLUTION
63.
- 2010,
The
Sixty-third
World
Health
Assembly
see>>
PEDIATRICS
: The
Burden
of Suboptimal
Breastfeeding
in the
United
States:
A Pediatric
Cost
Analysis
Melissa
Bartick
and
Arnold
Reinhold
Pediatrics
published
online
April
5 ,2010
Download
study
HIV
and
ininfant
feedining
Revised
Principles
and
Recommendations
–
Rapid
Advice
Download
Report
Use
of Antiretroviral
Drugs
for
Treating
Pregnant
Women
and
Preventing
HIV
Infection
in Infants
–
Rapid
Advice
Download
Report
"7th
Asia-Pacific
United
Nations
Prevention
of Mother-to-Child
Transmission
Task
Force
Meeting"
held
in Chennai,
India
in September
2009.
IBFAN
Asia
participated
in the
meeting
Download
Report
Summary
of Report:The
perceived
efficiency
of development
activities
related
to improving
infant
and
young
child
nutrition
in low-income
countries.--by
Sophie
Peloquin,
BSc.
Nutrition
Disclaimer: IBFAN Asia is not liable for national and international
boundaries.
Our aim is mapping of status of infant and young child feeding in the countries.
Source:Compare Infobase Ltd,New Delhi.