The Warm Chain campaign places the mother-baby dyad at the core. It strives to link different actors across the health, community and workplace sectors to provide a continuum of care during the first 1000 days.
Identify your role in the warm chain and use our information cards to find out what you can do. Once you have identified your role, link up with other stakeholders in creating a warm chain in your country or community.
Promoting supportive healthcare practices has always been a focus of WABA’s work. The Healthcare Practices Task Force, Research Task Force and Education & Training Working Group spearheaded this work especially in the area of capacity building. The Breastfeeding Advocacy and Practice (BAP) course and Wellstart Lactation Management Self-study Modules are examples of capacity building. Through the Mother Support Task Force and community initiatives, WABA has promoted the integration of health and community support. Since 2009, WABA promoted the Expanded Baby Friendly Initiative (EBFHI) launched by WHO/UNICEF and this subsequently became the conceptual basis for WABA’s Warm Chain of Support for Breastfeeding
Use the cards to work together with different stakeholders and coordinate efforts at all levels to care for the mother-baby dyad
Counseling, education, immediate support at delivery, and lactation management can increase exclusive breastfeeding by almost 50%.
Interventions that provide antenatal and postnatal counseling are more effective than those targeting one period only.
By investing US$570 million a year for the next 10 years, governments, donors, and partners can help raise the rate of exclusive breastfeeding to at least 50%.
