The second report in a series detailing exploitative marketing practices employed by US$ 55 billion baby formula industry, shows parents, particularly mothers, are being insidiously and persistently targeted online 28 April 2022 WHO News release Geneva Reading time: 3...
Message by Ksenya Solovey, Lactation Consultant in Ukraine: Mothers + babies need to stay warm. Donate clothes, blankets. Send medical supplies. Promote mothers uniting together. Please remember, formula donations will ultimately undermine breastfeeding and in the long-term create poor...
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...
Abstract: The global interest and concern over the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the attention of governments and international organisations away from urgent problems such as the climate crisis. In most international fora and meetings over the past year, attention...
Early life factors and COVID-19 infection in England: A prospective analysis of UK Biobank participants. A Didikoglu et al. April 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2021.105326 Highlights Low birth weight was associated with hospitalisation due to COVID-19. The odds of contracting COVID-19 were...
Update Dec 9, 2020 What are UPFs? Industrially produced and highly transformed foods. Ultra-processed foods UPF are a risk for health. Some new studies and research. Ultra-Processed Foods and the Corporate Capture of Nutrition BMJ essay by Gyorgy Scrinis...
Resumed online 73rd World Health Assembly 9-14th November 2020 Breastfeeding should be valued and protected worldwide. This is the purpose of the International Code of Marketing of breastmilk substitutes. A new draft Decision to be debated at this week’s resumed 73rd...
The week of taste in Geneva advocates the motto “From field to plate – eating local and seasonal”. Food is fundamental to health. Taste for food is formed from an early age, particularly through breast milk. Each mother’s milk...
World Breastfeeding Week has started in Switzerland (12.9.-19.9 2020) 2020 motto: “Supporting breastfeeding for a healthier planet Breastfeeding is the best choice for the health of the baby, for the health of the mother, for the health of the...
In a USA Citizen’s Petition filed today, children’s health advocates are ramping up pressure on FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to curb the rapidly growing sales of so-called ‘transition formulas’ or ‘toddler milks,’ which they say offer “no unique...
Are the doctors of the future ready to support breastfeeding? A cross-sectional study in the UK. Kirsty V Biggs, Katy J Fidler, Natalie S Shenker, Heather Brown (20 May 2020) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7238622/ Abstract Background: There are currently no published data...
Medical education in breastfeeding remains inadequate despite previous efforts to address the gaps. Additionally, physicians desire more training in breastfeeding, especially clinical skills training, to improve provider confidence and competence, according to a landscape analysis in Breastfeeding Medicine. Joan Younger...
On May 27, 2020, the State of the Code Report 2020 by WHO, UNICEF and IBFAN has been published. On the occasion of the Launch webinar, the officials emphasised : QUOTE The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of protecting...
Are our babies off to a healthy start? Shocking gaps in emergency preparedness for Europe’s babies, new WBTi World Breastfeeding Trends initiative report highlights. The Covid 19 pandemic has shown how important it is for countries to protect their...
2020 Status Report on the National Implementation of the Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) launched the 2020 Status Report that highlights which countries have implemented measures required by the International...
A recent study by Hacer Tanrikulu et al. (2020) reveals the impact of marketing practices of the breastmilk substitutes industry on public health policy in the USA. In the USA, early nutrition is compromised in the first two years...
In brief: Current recommendations are to initiate or maintain breastfeeding and, if mother-baby separation is necessary, to give pumped breast milk. Immunologic properties transfered to baby through breastfeeding alpha-Lactalbumin (variant) alpha-lactoglobulin alpha2-macroglobulin (like) ß-defensin-1 Bifidobacterium bifidum Carbohydrate Casein CCL28...
The La Leche League International Board has issued a media release about Continuing to Nurse Your Baby Through Coronavirus (2019-nCoV; COVID-19) and Other Respiratory Infections.All of of LLLI resources about breastfeeding and coronavirus are now collated here: https://www.llli.org/coronavirus-resources/ The media...
Feb 2020 – Civil society NGOs attending WHO’s Executive Board meeting ahead of the May World Health Assembly are protesting against a new Decision – drafted by WHO and to be debated now – proposing that in an effort...
On September 16 2019, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) conveyed a special celebratory event “30 years of children’s rights: Where we are and where we want to be” at the Palais des Nations...
The Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE) Core Group has recently finalized the 3rd version of the Operational Guidance for Emergency Relief Staff and Programme Managers, updated in October 2017. IBFAN is a member of the IFE Core Group and contributed directly...
