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.
To
assess
the
status
of
implementation
of
the
Global
Strategy
for
Infant
and
Young
Child
Feeding.
To
call
for
action
to
bridge
the
remaining
gaps
in
policy
and
programmes
on
breastfeeding
/infant
and
young
child
feeding
(IYCF)
To
draw
public
attention
on
the
state
of
policy
and
programmes
on
breastfeeding
and
infant
and
young
child
feeding
To
showcase
national
work
at
global
level
One
Asia
Breastfeeding
Partners
Forum
–
8
Ulaanbaatar
,
Mongolia
on
14-16
Sept.,
2011
Theme
:
Climate
Change
and
Food
Security ULAANBAATAR
DECLARATION on
Breastfeeding
and
Infant
and
Young
Child
Feeding
International
Baby Food
Action Network
(IBFAN) Statement
on the Promotion
and Use of
Commercial
Fortified
Foods as Solutions
for Child
Malnutrition
The
IBFAN Statement
on the Promotion
and Use of
Commercial
Fortified
Foods as Solutions
for Child
Malnutrition
is now available
in 4 languages.
Please click
on the link
below to view
the statement.
Effect
of nutrition education on
exclusive breastfeeding
for nutritional outcome
of low birth weight babies
download
paper
Antiretroviral
Regimens in Pregnancy and
Breast-Feeding in Botswana
see
the study
WHA
RESOLUTION 63. - 2010, The
Sixty-third World Health
Assembly see>>
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
Global
Strategy for Women's and
Children's Health -- UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki
-moon click
here
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
Launch of the global Breastfeeding Initiative for Child Survival: IBFAN marks its 30th anniversary
find out more http://www.ibfan.org/gbics.html
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>>
News
NGO holds exhibition to stress benefits of breast milk:
AN ART exhibition titled “Motherhood: Celebrating and Supporting Women as Mothers, Workers and Nurturers!” is currently being held in George Town in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the World Alliance for Breast-feeding Action (Waba). 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 here
Study: 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 here
Press 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.
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.
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