This study by Carina Stone and Julie P Smith finds that meaningful discussion of breastfeeding is overwhelmingly absent from the sexual and reproductive health rights literature, despite several key international human rights instruments protecting women’s rights on breastfeeding. Equally,...
Sign the WHO Letter #EndExploitativeMarketing https://www.who.int/teams/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-health-and-ageing/formula-milk-industry/endexploitativemarketing-of-formula-milk-products See livestream of the event https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2022/02/23/default-calendar/marketing-the-USD-55-billion-formula-milk-industry We call on manufacturers and distributors of commercial milk formula to #EndExploitativeMarketing of formula milk products. We call on National Governments to enact, monitor, and enforce laws...
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners will launch a new report, How the marketing of formula milk influences our decisions on infant feeding. Wednesday 23 February 2022...
Despite public health efforts to promote breastfeeding, global rates of breastfeeding continue to trail behind the goals identified by the World Health Organization.1 While the literature exploring breastfeeding beliefs and practices is growing, it offers various and sometimes conflicting...
Breastfeeding Medicine Journal – New Rochelle, NY, December 14, 2021—The percentage of infants fully breastfed at 1,3, and 6 months significantly decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic among participants of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children...
IBFAN’s Briefing: The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes was adopted forty years ago by the World Health Assembly, the world’s highest health policy setting body. The Code, the first consumer protection tool of its kind, was the result of...
Over the last few decades, the demand for breast milk has grown. The message “breast is best” has driven parents and caregivers to buy breast milk. Even the unwell, bodybuilders and “clean eaters” are known to use it. Once...
New Rochelle, NY, September 16, 2021—COVID-19 vaccination results in minimal disruption of lactation. Vaccination also has no adverse impact on the breastfed child, according to two studies published in the peer-reviewed journal Breastfeeding Medicine. Skyler McLaurin-Jiang, MD, MPH, click here...
GIFA invites you to an online thematic meeting as part of World Breastfeeding Week WBW 2021. Alain, father of 3 children and general practitioner, will lead this discussion on the place of the father, his role when the mother...
The recording of the Ceremony and the lectures is online. Let’s celebrate the anniversary of breastfeeding protection together! The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes was published in 1981. It remains valid as a tool for the protection...
