I want to
be involved

in the work to protect, promote and
support breastfeeding worldwide.

Scaling up breastfeeding can prevent

20,000

maternal deaths

annually

823,000

child deaths

annually

$302 billion

in economic losses

annually

Global status of breastfeeding

Optimal breastfeeding is vital to the lifelong good health and wellbeing of women and children.

WHO and UNICEF recommend:

  • Early initiation of breastfeeding within 1 hour of birth.
  • Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.
  • Continued breastfeeding up to 2 years of age or beyond, with introduction of nutritionally adequate and safe complementary (solid) foods at 6 months.

Breastfeeding & Sustainable Development

WABA has made links between breastfeeding and each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Discover WABA

WABA works at the international, regional, national and community levels

Take Action

Join our global campaigns

World Breastfeeding Week

World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is a global campaign to raise awareness and galvanise action on themes related to breastfeeding.

Warm Chain of Support for Breastfeeding

The Warm Chain campaign places the mother-baby dyad at the core and strives to link different actors by coordinating efforts at all levels to provide a continuum of care during the first 1000 days.

Empowering Parents Campaign

The Empowering Parents Campaign promotes gender equitable parental social protection that will facilitate the integration of parents’ productive and reproductive work in both formal and informal settings.

Be Empowered

Equip yourself with knowledge, skills and resources

Develops participants’ knowledge and skills to support mothers and babies, and advocate for change to improve infant feeding practices.

Provides financial incentives for existing or new projects that are aligned with our campaigns to link breastfeeding to sustainable development.

WABA is an alliance of individuals and organisations, we offer you access to knowledge and expertise of experts within the WABA alliance.

Get Involved

Get information & resources relevant to you

Academic

You can support breastfeeding by advocating through education, research and the dissemination of scientific evidence

Advocate

You can support breastfeeding by creating a wider pool of advocates who can bring about positive changes

Breastfeeding Support Group

You can support breastfeeding by focusing on women’s needs and rights before, during and after childbirth to promote optimal breastfeeding

Donor

You can support breastfeeding by investing in programmes and interventions that improve breastfeeding

Employer

You can support breastfeeding by making your workplace parent-friendly to increase productivity and retention, as well as lower healthcare costs

Environmentalist

You can support breastfeeding by making connections between human health and nature

Healthcare Provider

You can support breastfeeding by positively influencing the decisions parents make about breastfeeding and child health

Man

You can support breastfeeding by promoting equitable relationships between men and women and sharing the care and domestic work

Media

You can support breastfeeding by providing  information that has the power to promote and support breastfeeding

Policymaker

You can support breastfeeding by recognising breastfeeding as a universal human right and investing in breastfeeding

Trade Unionist

You can support breastfeeding for workers by promoting gender equitable parental social protection

Woman

You can support breastfeeding by providing moral, social and practical support needed by breastfeeding mothers

Young Person

You can support breastfeeding by developing innovative approaches and using diverse mediums that can create an enabling environment for women to breastfeed

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