Global
Strategy for Infant and Young Child
Feeing :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 “Innocenti Declaration” (3) was confirmed by 139 governments in 1990. It recommended all governments to have national breastfeeding committees and coordinators as established mechanisms to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in the country. World Summit for Children recommends, “All governments should develop national breastfeeding policies. The Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding calls for an urgent action form all Member States to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate a comprehensive policy on IYCF
Activity and Results
Rector
Digernes' (Norwegian University
of Science and Technology)
response to Dr.Arun Gupta's
letter regarding the press release
on breastfeeding research.click
here.
Norwegian
University of Science and Technology
(NTNU) - to remove damaging
statement :
gBICS Chairperson, Arun Gurpta
calls on NTNU (Norwegian University
of Science and Technology) Rector
to remove 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 Gurpta, please click
here.
Global
Conference on Meeting Nutritional
Challenges with Sustainability
and Equity
Dates: 2-3 August, 2009 more>>
A
new global campaign was launched
on 9th February 2009. The ONE
MILLION CAMPAIGN: Support Women
to Breastfeedmore>>
New
Delhi 9 December 2008:
Is India destined to fall short
of its Millennium Development
Goal 4 for reducing child mortality?
The 2008 India Report on the State
of Breastfeeding/infant feeding
policy and programme trends in
the country( http://worldbreastfeedingtrends.org/report/WBTi-India-Assessment-Repor-2008.pdf
), released today by Sh. Mani
Shankar Aiyar, Minister for Panchayati
Raj, reveals the dismal state
of support to women for breastfeeding
and the lack of will to invest
in this most effective intervention
for saving newborn and infant
lives and preventing early malnutrition.
more>>
