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.
The risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding presents policy makers, infant feeding counsellors and mothers with a difficult dilemma. They must balance the risk of death due to artificial feeding with the risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding. These risks are dependent on the age of the infant and household conditions and are not precisely known. Other factors must be considered at the same time, such as the risk of stigmatisation (if not breastfeeding signals the mother’s HIV status), the financial costs of replacement feeding and the risk of becoming pregnant again. Policies and programmes to meet this challenge should provide access to voluntary and confidential counselling and testing (VCCT) and, for HIV-positive mothers, counselling on infant feeding options. Safeguards should be in place to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in the rest of the population.
Activity and Result
IBFAN
Asia / Breastfeeding Promotion
Network of India (BPNI) and UNICEF
ROSA organized "Infant Feeding
and HIV: A Regional Colloquium
for the Asia Pacific" held on
28-29 November 2003, New Delhi,
India.
Rapid
assessment of infant feeding and
HIV in national PMTCT/PPTCT programmes
in 5 countries.
IBFAN
groups in Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal
conducted the rapid assessment
through a participatory process
in June 2005.Given below are the
reports:
