Not exact matches
World Health Organization Summary of evidence in support of the revised
WHO principles and
recommendations on HIV and
infant feeding.
The authors describe how 90 % of mothers initiate breastfeeding at birth, yet very quickly after hospital discharge these rates fall and neither exclusive breastfeeding, nor duration, come close to the
WHO / UNICEF
infant feeding recommendations.
The WBTi focuses on 10 key indicators from the evidence - based strategies in the
WHO Global Strategy for
Infant and Young Child
Feeding and the Innocenti Declaration, which are described in the 2008 Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding in Europe: a blueprint for action and in
Infant and Young Child
Feeding: Standard
Recommendations for the European Union.
HIV Medicine DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2011.00918.x IBFAN - Asia Position Statement on HIV and
Infant Feeding, 13 October 2008 South African Tshwane Declaration on breastfeeding, S Afr J Clin Nutr 2011; 24 (4) UNAIDS 2010, Strategy Getting to Zero, UNAIDS Strategy 2011 — 2015 UNAIDS 2010, Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, 2010 - 2014 UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 Press Release, 9 June, World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015 UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF 2010, Facts for Life UNICEF 2011, Programming Guide, Infant and Young Child Feeding, 26 May 2011 WHO / UNICEF 2003, Global strategy for infant and young child feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant fe
Infant Feeding, 13 October 2008 South African Tshwane Declaration on breastfeeding, S Afr J Clin Nutr 2011; 24 (4) UNAIDS 2010, Strategy Getting to Zero, UNAIDS Strategy 2011 — 2015 UNAIDS 2010, Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, 2010 - 2014 UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 Press Release, 9 June, World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015 UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF 2010, Facts for Life UNICEF 2011, Programming Guide, Infant and Young Child Feeding, 26 May 2011 WHO / UNICEF 2003, Global strategy for infant and young child feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant f
Feeding, 13 October 2008 South African Tshwane Declaration on breastfeeding, S Afr J Clin Nutr 2011; 24 (4) UNAIDS 2010, Strategy Getting to Zero, UNAIDS Strategy 2011 — 2015 UNAIDS 2010, Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, 2010 - 2014 UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 Press Release, 9 June, World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015 UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF 2010, Facts for Life UNICEF 2011, Programming Guide,
Infant and Young Child Feeding, 26 May 2011 WHO / UNICEF 2003, Global strategy for infant and young child feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant fe
Infant and Young Child
Feeding, 26 May 2011 WHO / UNICEF 2003, Global strategy for infant and young child feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant f
Feeding, 26 May 2011
WHO / UNICEF 2003, Global strategy for
infant and young child feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant fe
infant and young child
feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant f
feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis
WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009
WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda
WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes
WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in
infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised
WHO principles and
recommendations on
infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant fe
infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant f
feeding in the context of HIV
WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector
WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and
infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant fe
infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant f
feeding: Principles and recomendations for
infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant fe
infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant f
feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence
WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and
infant fe
infant feedingfeeding.
Authoring organization (s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - Published: 2006, 2008 Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (
WHO)
Infant and Young Child
Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement f
Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary
feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement f
feeding and country - specific
recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the
WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement
feedingfeeding.
If you have had access to different global World Health Organization (
WHO) HIV and
infant feeding recommendations over the years, do you find them confusing?
Rapid advice: revised
WHO principles and
recommendations on
infant feeding in the context of HIV — November 2009 Authors:
WHO, Number of pages: 28, Publication date: 2009, Languages: English, ISBN: 9789241598873 Overview On 30 November, the eve of World AIDS Day, the
WHO released new
recommendations on treatment, prevention and
infant feeding in the context of HIV, based on the latest scientific evidence.
WHO 2010, Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in
infants, Recommendations for a public health approach WHO Feb 2010, PMTCT strategic vision 2010 — 2015: preventing mother - to - child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding, an updated Framework for Priority Action (copyright WHO 2012) WHO / UNICEF / UNAIDS 2011, Global HIV / AIDS response — Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access — Progress Report 2011 WHO 2011, Global health sector strategy on HIV - AIDS, 2011 — 2015 WHO 2012, Programmatic Update — Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Infants (versions available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese) Yezingane Network and UNICEF, December 2010, updated July 2011, Infant feeding in South Africa in the context of HIV, Questions and
infants,
Recommendations for a public health approach
WHO Feb 2010, PMTCT strategic vision 2010 — 2015: preventing mother - to - child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals
WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and
infant feeding, an updated Framework for Priority Action (copyright WHO 2012) WHO / UNICEF / UNAIDS 2011, Global HIV / AIDS response — Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access — Progress Report 2011 WHO 2011, Global health sector strategy on HIV - AIDS, 2011 — 2015 WHO 2012, Programmatic Update — Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Infants (versions available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese) Yezingane Network and UNICEF, December 2010, updated July 2011, Infant feeding in South Africa in the context of HIV, Questions and A
infant feeding, an updated Framework for Priority Action (copyright
WHO 2012)
WHO / UNICEF / UNAIDS 2011, Global HIV / AIDS response — Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access — Progress Report 2011
WHO 2011, Global health sector strategy on HIV - AIDS, 2011 — 2015
WHO 2012, Programmatic Update — Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in
Infants (versions available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese) Yezingane Network and UNICEF, December 2010, updated July 2011, Infant feeding in South Africa in the context of HIV, Questions and
Infants (versions available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese) Yezingane Network and UNICEF, December 2010, updated July 2011,
Infant feeding in South Africa in the context of HIV, Questions and A
Infant feeding in South Africa in the context of HIV, Questions and Answers
As a consequence, today's HIV - positive mothers are enabled to avoid both the stigma and the risks of formula -
feeding because current HIV and
infant feeding guidance is once again more closely aligned to
WHO recommendations for their uninfected counterparts, in place over the last decade: exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and continued breastfeeding with the introduction of age - appropriate complementary
feeding for up to 2 years or beyond.
This is one of several
WHO recommendations on
feeding of LBW
infants.
Huge thanks to Alison and the APPG, and to all the amazing organisations in our Core Group
who worked together to identify gaps in UK policy and programmes in
infant feeding, and to jointly generate
recommendations for Action!
Please discourage support for Amendment 13 which is incorrect and says: (16a) «According to the
WHO recommendations, low - birth weight
infants should be
fed their mother's own milk.
«According to the
WHO recommendations, low - birth weight
infants should be
fed their mother's own milk.
Mothers known to be HIV - infected should be supported to exclusively breastfeed their
infants for the first six months of life, to introduce appropriate complementary foods thereafter, and to continue breastfeeding for the first 12 months, along with provision of ARVs, as per current
WHO recommendations on HIV and
infant feeding (see references below).
Rapid advice: revised
WHO principles and
recommendations on
infant feeding in the context of HIV — November 2009 Guiding principles on
feeding non-breastfed children 6 - 24 months of age (2005) Evidence for the ten steps to successful breastfeeding (1998) Breastfeeding counselling: A training course (1993)
Confirming resolution WHA33.32, including the endorsement in their entirety of the statement and
recommendations made by the joint
WHO / UNICEF Meeting on
Infant and Young Child
Feeding held from 9 to 12 October 1979;
(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all
infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all
who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary suppo
who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint
WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary suppo
WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the
recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to
infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;
(1) to give full and unanimous support to the implementation of the
recommendations made by the joint
WHO / UNICEF Meeting on
Infant and Young Child
Feeding and of the provisions of the International Code in its entirety as an expression of the collective will of the membership of the World Health Organization;
Feeding infants and young children in the context of HIV Mothers known to be HIV - infected should be supported to exclusively breastfeed their infants for the first six months of life, to introduce appropriate complementary foods thereafter, and to continue breastfeeding for the first 12 months, along with provision of ARVs, as per current WHO recommendations on HIV and infant feeding (see references
Feeding infants and young children in the context of HIV Mothers known to be HIV - infected should be supported to exclusively breastfeed their
infants for the first six months of life, to introduce appropriate complementary foods thereafter, and to continue breastfeeding for the first 12 months, along with provision of ARVs, as per current
WHO recommendations on HIV and
infant feeding (see references
feeding (see references below).
To facilitate the implementation of the Global Strategy for
Infant and Young Child
Feeding, and assist governments in translating global
recommendations into country - specific actions,
WHO convened a technical meeting from 3 to 5 February 2003 in Geneva.
The barriers to the AAP, WIC, and
WHO recommendations for
infant feeding would not have been identified without adopting an ecological model and ethnographic research that focused on the social context of children and families.
Many families do not adhere to
recommendations advanced by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,
Infants, and Children (WIC), and the World Health Organization (WHO) that infants be fed only breast milk or formula for the first 4 to 6 months of life.1 — 4 Although the health consequences associated with the early introduction of complementary foods are controversial, 5 — 8 there is evidence that early introduction of solid foods may increase infants» risk of enteric infections, allergic reactions, obesity, choking, and food aversion.9 — 13 Complementary foods are often high in protein, raising questions about the consequences of high protein intakes on growth and obesity.14 In addition, early complementary feeding does not increase the likelihood of nighttime sleeping15 and may increase the likelihood of feeding disorders, especially if parents introduce developmentally inappropriate food or feeding techniques before children have acquired the necessary neuromuscular skills
Infants, and Children (WIC), and the World Health Organization (
WHO) that
infants be fed only breast milk or formula for the first 4 to 6 months of life.1 — 4 Although the health consequences associated with the early introduction of complementary foods are controversial, 5 — 8 there is evidence that early introduction of solid foods may increase infants» risk of enteric infections, allergic reactions, obesity, choking, and food aversion.9 — 13 Complementary foods are often high in protein, raising questions about the consequences of high protein intakes on growth and obesity.14 In addition, early complementary feeding does not increase the likelihood of nighttime sleeping15 and may increase the likelihood of feeding disorders, especially if parents introduce developmentally inappropriate food or feeding techniques before children have acquired the necessary neuromuscular skills
infants be
fed only breast milk or formula for the first 4 to 6 months of life.1 — 4 Although the health consequences associated with the early introduction of complementary foods are controversial, 5 — 8 there is evidence that early introduction of solid foods may increase
infants» risk of enteric infections, allergic reactions, obesity, choking, and food aversion.9 — 13 Complementary foods are often high in protein, raising questions about the consequences of high protein intakes on growth and obesity.14 In addition, early complementary feeding does not increase the likelihood of nighttime sleeping15 and may increase the likelihood of feeding disorders, especially if parents introduce developmentally inappropriate food or feeding techniques before children have acquired the necessary neuromuscular skills
infants» risk of enteric infections, allergic reactions, obesity, choking, and food aversion.9 — 13 Complementary foods are often high in protein, raising questions about the consequences of high protein intakes on growth and obesity.14 In addition, early complementary
feeding does not increase the likelihood of nighttime sleeping15 and may increase the likelihood of
feeding disorders, especially if parents introduce developmentally inappropriate food or
feeding techniques before children have acquired the necessary neuromuscular skills.16, 17