But several weeks after the operation, Steven's wife, Christie, accepted the prognosis that Steven would not
improve and acquiesced to the hospital ethics committee's
recommendation of withdrawing his tube
feedings.
for training, practice and reference, December 2007 IBFAN Training Courses on the Code ICAP, 2010
Improving Retention, Adherence, and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: Implementation Workshop for Health Workers IYCN Project, The roles of grandmothers and men: evidence supporting a familyfocused approach to optimal infant and young child nutrition IYCN Project Mother - to - Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant
Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant
Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child
Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to
feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant
Feeding 2010: Principles and
Recommendations for Infant
Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context of HIV.
Summary: Analyzes behavior change interventions aiming to
improve complementary
feeding practices and children's nutritional status and provides
recommendations for designing and implementing these interventions.
Although professional lactation support can
improve the duration of overall breast
feeding, its effect in
improving exclusive breast
feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current
recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to
improve rates of breast
feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6