Who do you think will take action when baby food companies are running
events for health workers to promote their formula brands?
The cost of the television advertising, foreign
trips for health workers, study days and the rest of the promotion goes onto the cost of their products.
WHO distance learning course WHO has developed a self - teaching training course on diarrhoea case management designed
for health workers who regularly deal with children with diarrhoea but who are unable to attend training courses away from their workplaces.
An event will be organised
for health workers on a similar topic by the Trust without company sponsorship.
The motion highlights the World Health Organization and Unicef's code on marketing of breast milk substitutes, 1 which emphasises the
need for health workers to be independent of promotional influences such as sponsorship of professional associations.
These forums are developed based on local priorities and provide networking and professional development
opportunities for Health Workers and Health Practitioners.
«The workshop is training on infant and young children feeding
for health workers in IDP camps in Maiduguri.
I raised the Government's concerns and the WHA Resolutions at the Nestlé shareholder meeting in 2012 and the response from Chairman, Peter Brabeck - Letmathé, was it is not for Baby Milk Acton to tell him what to do — then he showed a film he had prepared earlier about
training for health workers.
Curtin University says a report on Australia's future
demand for health workers reinforces its plan to open Western Australia's third medical school.
Stamford, Conn. — April 3, 2018 — Americares has made a commitment to expand access to mental health and psychosocial
services for health workers and first responders on the frontlines of the Hurricane Maria recovery in Puerto Rico.
Former President Bill Clinton and Americares President and CEO Michael J. Nyenhuis announced «
Healing for Health Workers: Building Mental Health Capacity in Post-Maria Puerto Rico» as a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery meeting in Miami today.
February 2009 — Obama announces plans to revoke conscience
protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February, 2011.
When Nestlé runs mass media advertising campaigns, targets parents with baby clubs or throws a promotional event
for health workers at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London to encourage them to promote SMA — who pays for it?
We have produced a
poster for health workers on conflicts of interest — and mugs, fridge magnets and key rings so they can demonstrate they «Say NO to formula company sponsorship»
Short
films for health workers and for parents and carers intending to use formula explain the different types of formula on the market and how to reconstitute powdered formula correctly.
As well as boycott materials, our online Virtual Shop has
resources for health workers and mother - support groups to provide independent and accurate information.
ALCI is a Global Partner of International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), the global
association for health workers who specialise in breastfeeding.
See our poster for sources of independent information on
formula for health workers — UNICEF and Department of Health in the UK have produced a guide for parents.
UN agencies have developed counseling
guidelines for health workers and policy makers that address the risks and benefits of available infant feeding methods and how to make the chosen method of infant feeding as safe as possible.
WHO has developed the guide «Complementary feeding: Family Foods for breastfed children» that gives more detailed
guidance for health workers on how to support complementary feeding.
Summary: IYCN supported the Government of Haiti to develop this set of nationally - validated infant and young child feeding counseling
cards for health workers...
VSO and the Royal College of Physicians are calling for an
exemption for health workers coming to Britain as part of the MTI to ensure they can take advantage of the full two years of training.
Odder still, they held a third joint press conference a few weeks later, this time to announce a new quarantine
policy for those health workers who had treated Ebola patients in Western Africa and who were returning to Port Authority - run airports in New York and New Jersey.
NUAHP is an umbrella
union for health workers such as physiotherapists, pharmacists, dieticians, medical laboratory scientists, optometrists and radiographers.
In January, Cuomo ordered city subways shut down ahead of a big snowstorm without giving the mayor notice; in October, the governor ordered a quarantine at city
airports for health workers when Ebola struck in Africa.
If a mother has trudged many kilometers with a feverish child, it's
hard for a health worker to send her away without something «powerful,» such as an antibiotic or an antimalarial, Hopkins says.
November 16, 2017 • That's the
dilemma for health workers in Bangladesh as they try to treat the physical and mental health issues among the Rohingya who've fled violence in their homeland of Myanmar.
The motion highlighted the World Health Organisation and Unicef code on the marketing of breast milk substitutes, which stresses the
need for health workers to be independent of promotional influences, such as sponsorship of professional associations.2
Nestlé has been hosting so - called education
events for health workers, where it requires them to sign up via an SMA - branded website.
The package includes: 1) use of a new continuum of care card, 2) continuum of care
orientation for health workers, 3) 24 - h health facility retention of mothers and newborns after delivery, and 4) postnatal care by home visits.
Antenatal care also offers an
opportunity for health workers to provide a range of support and information to pregnant women, including on healthy lifestyles, preventing diseases, and family planning.
Accordingly, we are organising protests outside events
for health workers and the public sponsored by Danone to raise awareness of the conflicts of interest involved.
This highlighted events Nestlé organises
for health workers, ostensibly about breastfeeding, including in India where infant food manufacturing companies are prohibited by law from sponsoring or hosting events for health workers.
It is just as obvious that when Nestlé, Danone or any other company funds events
for health workers — or offers to sponsor them — it is also an investment that has to make a profit for the company concerned.