Physician’s Pledge To Promote, Protect And Support Breastfeeding
April 28, 2015Join now, pledge to do your part to promote, protect and support optimal breastfeeding, to ensure that training of future physicians includes all evidence-based and necessary knowledge and skills, to provide leadership for the breastfeeding support team, and to work towards the four Innocenti Goals.
- March 4, 2015
Health advocates from across Europe have decried new rules on baby formulas and foods that are being forced through by the European Commission with no time for proper consultation and expert reflection. The EU Commission claims that its proposals are a step forward but has taken little account of developments in the global market in the last 10 years where a whole range of new formulas are being aggressively marketed to parents.
- January 26, 2015
he conference and workshops are organized by the Nordic and Quebec Neo-BFHI Working Group to support, promote and protect breastfeeding of preterm, low birth weight and sick infants requiring neonatal intensive/special care around the world. The Conference Purpose? To prepare the participants for implementation of the program and to discuss barriers, and activities to overcome ...
Getting to Zero: Maximising Infant HIV-free Survival through Breastfeeding
December 1, 2014The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) celebrates World AIDS Day on 1 December each year with colleagues and friends to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic and emphasise the critical need for a committed, meaningful and sustained response. Please click here and read the full statement. Please click here and read the full statement in ...
- October 17, 2014
Governments met in the FAO Headquarters in Rome from 10-12 October to finalize the Rome Political Declaration and the Framework for Action for the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2). After 22 years, civil society organizations (CSOs) were expecting significant progress to address the urgent problem of the more than 200 million children who suffer from acute and chronic malnutrition, the 800 million suffering from undernourishment and the 500 million adults with obesity. CSOs consider the outcomes of this negotiation to be totally inadequate to confront the root causes of malnutrition and call into question the lack of commitment of the States to make a real step forward in the fight against malnutrition in all its forms.
