Given the important role of health workers in protecting pregnant women, mothers and their infants from the inappropriate promotion of BMS, the 2020 report highlights specific provisions considered to be particularly instrumental in addressing and eliminating the promotion of breast-milk substitutes, feeding bottles and teats to health workers and in health facilities, and provides an extensive analysis of legal measures taken to prohibit promotion to health workers and in health facilities. In this report, a new scoring algorithm was used to classify countries’ legislation. The scoring methods allow for standardised classification of countries following agreed criteria among WHO, UNICEF, and IBFAN.

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