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.
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.
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
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
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.
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