There will be breastfeeding advocates from 170 countries recognizing
this international World Breastfeeding Week.
This month as communities around the world marked
international World Breastfeeding Week (Canada celebrates Oct 1 - 7), formula companies in the Philippines launched an advertising offensive designed to undermine breastfeeding in that country.
Not exact matches
Donating formula samples, though well meaning, violates the
World Health Organization's
International Code on the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, which means that it undermines
breastfeeding.
The correct role of infant formula companies during
World Breastfeeding Week is the same as at any other time of the year: to sell their infant formula in accordance with
international marketing standards — and nothing else.
A report from the
World Health Organisation on the progress in implementing the
International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes suggests «
breastfeeding has the potential to prevent about 800 000 deaths among children under five each year.»
«Nestlé's attempt to wrap itself in the messages of
World Breastfeeding Week and the First 1000 Days is terribly cynical, but is also a measure of the success of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) in protecting breastfeeding and the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in
Breastfeeding Week and the First 1000 Days is terribly cynical, but is also a measure of the success of the
International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) in protecting
breastfeeding and the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in
breastfeeding and the
World Alliance for
Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in
Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in promoting it.
The United States performed poorly on almost all indicators set by the
World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi), an
international tracking, assessment and monitoring system for national implementation of the Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding.
Learn about the most important document pertaining to the protection of
breastfeeding: the
World Health AssemblyÂ's
International Code of Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes and subsequent relevant resolutions of the
World Health Assembly.
Firstly, the WHO
International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent
World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions, designed to protect
breastfeeding and parents from being targeted with promotions that push formula feeding, clearly recommend that those working with mothers and children should not create conflicts of interest: Specifically, WHA Resolution 49.15 (2) states,
According to the
international standards adopted to protect breastfeeding from commercial pressures, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Nestlé is required to comply with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent resolutions in all countries of the world, irrespective of their national legislation on
international standards adopted to protect
breastfeeding from commercial pressures, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Nestlé is required to comply with the
International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent resolutions in all countries of the world, irrespective of their national legislation on
International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent resolutions in all countries of the
world, irrespective of their national legislation on this matter.
The devastating effects of bottlefeeding, aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes by manufacturers, and general decline in
breastfeeding caused great concern and motivated a movement to raise the alarm.In 1981 it led to the
World Health Assembly's adoption of the
International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (also known as the Code).
Join La Leche League
International (LLLI) and the
World Alliance for
Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in celebration of
World Health Day, April 7, 2016.
As a global citizen concerned with infant health, I noted with great appreciation your statement on the occasion of the 2005
World Breastfeeding Week indicating UNICEF's continued commitment to the implementation of the
International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.
Commits to full compliance with the WHO
International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of the
World Health Assembly to protect
breastfeeding and infant and young child health.
In 2016, Healthy Children Project, Inc. (HCP) convened an Expert Panel to complete the
World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) an
international tracking, assessment and monitoring system for national implementation of the Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding.
Organizations such as La Leche League
International and Save The Children are doing their part all around the
world to educate on the importance of
breastfeeding.
There are also private lactation consultants and La Leche League
International, a non-profit support group teaching and supporting women to
breastfeed around the
world.
During a meeting in 1990, The
World Health Organization (WHO) and The United Nations
International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) created the Innocenti Declaration, a formal statement about the protection, promotion, and support of
breastfeeding.
The
World Health Organization (WHO), along with grassroots non-governmental organisations like the
International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) have played a large role in encouraging these governmental departments to promote
breastfeeding.
Organizations around the
world — from established
international organizations to emerging national and regional groups — are all working toward improving
breastfeeding outcomes.
«La Leche League
International (LLLI) and the
World Alliance for
Breastfeeding Action (WABA) celebrate
World Health Day 2018 and the concept of UHC (Universal health coverage) which cuts across all of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
7: The
World Health Organisation booklet responding to Frequently Asked Questions on the
International Code (updated in 2008) relates the protective factors of
breastfeeding and states:
[26]
International organisations such as Plan
International and La Leche League have helped to promote
breastfeeding around the
world, educating new mothers and helping the governments to develop strategies to increase the number of women exclusively
breastfeeding.
This global awareness initiative is coordinated by the
World Alliance for
Breastfeeding Action (WABA), an international network of organizations working to protect, promote, and support b
Breastfeeding Action (WABA), an
international network of organizations working to protect, promote, and support
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Francis, Solveig THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS Crossroads, 2002
Breastfeeding is on the rise worldwide, but the
International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk substitutes is undermined and ignored throughout the
world.
According to the
World Health Organization, La Leche League
International, The American Pediatric Association and Attachment Parenting
International, a
breastfeeding mother should continue to nurse — once the minimum recommended length of
breastfeeding is met — as long as it is «mutually desired» by herself and her child.
Attachment Parenting
International is pleased to announce that we are taking part in
World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), August 1 - 7.
Meaningful implementation of the
International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes and subsequent
World Health Assembly Resolutions for the protection and support of a mother's right to
breastfeed.
Nancy is a La Leche League leader,
Breastfeeding USA counselor, writes for many publications, speaks at events around the world, and has been honored for her contributions in the field of breastfeeding with the designation FILCA, Fellow of the International Lactation Consultant
Breastfeeding USA counselor, writes for many publications, speaks at events around the
world, and has been honored for her contributions in the field of
breastfeeding with the designation FILCA, Fellow of the International Lactation Consultant
breastfeeding with the designation FILCA, Fellow of the
International Lactation Consultant Association.
These findings and recommendations come after the UK member of the
International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), Baby Milk Action, submitted a civil society report to the Committee with results from its monitoring of the baby food industry (left) and preliminary findings and recommendations from the
World Breastfeeding Trends initiative assessment of the UK.
[2] Framework for Action adopted at ICN2: Recommended actions to promote, protect and support
breastfeeding Recommendation 29: Adapt and implement the
International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes and subsequent relevant
World Health Assembly resolutions.
Launched in 2005 by
International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), the
World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative monitors 10 key breastfeeding policies and programmes, drawn from the WHO's Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding and the Innocenti
Breastfeeding Trends Initiative monitors 10 key
breastfeeding policies and programmes, drawn from the WHO's Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding and the Innocenti
breastfeeding policies and programmes, drawn from the WHO's Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding and the Innocenti Declaration.
Join
International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) and
World Alliance for
Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in observing WBW 1 - 7 August 2016.
Purchases support LLL
International and help to provide
breastfeeding support around the
world.
The weight of the evidence is best summarized by the Lamaze
International's position paper «
Breastfeeding is Priceless: No Substitute for Human Milk» when they conclude that «[t] he
World Health Organization, health care associations, and government health agencies affirm the scientific evidence of the clear superiority of human milk and of the hazards of artificial milk products.»
July 5 - Making
Breastfeeding the Norm: Creating a Culture of
Breastfeeding in a Hyper - Sexualized
World July 6 — Supporting
Breastfeeding Mothers: the New, the Experienced, and the Mothers of More Than One Nursing Child July 7 — Creating a Supportive Network: Your Stories and Celebrations of N.I.P. July 8 —
Breastfeeding:
International and Religious Perspectives July 9 — Your Legal Right to Nurse in Public, and How to Respond to Anyone Who Questions It
less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV)
Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
Breastfeeding and HIV
International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive
Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus
International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for
International Development
World Alliance for
Breastfeeding Action United Nations
World Food Programme
World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding
World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)
Originally conceived as a joint ILCA - WABA collaborative project, with a gestation period of over seven years, WABA marked
World AIDS Day this December with the easy delivery of a new Comprehensive Resource entitled «Understanding
International Policy on HIV and
Breastfeeding» which can be downloaded HERE.
International AIDS Society and 15 other leading organizations, including WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS, Consensus Statement, «Asking the Right questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children», dated 8 March, 2010
International Breastfeeding Journal, Thematic issue on HIV and infant feeding: Lessons learnt and ways ahead, reports from sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, Uganda, Malawi and Ethiopia, edited by Dr Karen Marie Moland and Dr Astrid Blystad, Collection published: 26 October 2010 Kuhn L, Reitz C and Abrams EJ,
Breastfeeding and AIDS in the developing
world.
Breastfeeding is safe and is the method of infant nutrition recommended by national and
international health authorities such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the
World Health Organization (WHO).
Practice Update: HIV and
breastfeeding - Morrison P. - Essentially MIDIRS, August 2014; 5 (7): 38 - 9, available at page 38 HIV and breastfeeding: the unfolding evidence - Morrison P and Faulkner Z - Essentially MIDIRS, Dec / Jan 2015; 5 (11): 7 - 13, Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P - Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
breastfeeding - Morrison P. - Essentially MIDIRS, August 2014; 5 (7): 38 - 9, available at page 38 HIV and
breastfeeding: the unfolding evidence - Morrison P and Faulkner Z - Essentially MIDIRS, Dec / Jan 2015; 5 (11): 7 - 13, Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P - Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
breastfeeding: the unfolding evidence - Morrison P and Faulkner Z - Essentially MIDIRS, Dec / Jan 2015; 5 (11): 7 - 13,
Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P - Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P -
Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about
breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
breastfeeding - Morrison P -
World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women
International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and
Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014
Breastfeeding with HIV, is breas
Breastfeeding with HIV, is breast still best?
In 2009, The American Institute for Cancer Research (a member of the
International Agency for Research on Cancer, a part of the
World Health Organization) released the largest review of research into lifestyle and breast cancer ever conducted, which reinforced previous findings that women can reduce their risk by maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, drinking less alcohol, and
breastfeeding their children.
Breastfeeding La Leche League International is all about mothers helping mothers.Formed in 1956 bya small group of women who realized that breastfeeding was easier when they shared experiences with other mothers, it now has groups arou
Breastfeeding La Leche League
International is all about mothers helping mothers.Formed in 1956 bya small group of women who realized that
breastfeeding was easier when they shared experiences with other mothers, it now has groups arou
breastfeeding was easier when they shared experiences with other mothers, it now has groups around the
world.
Incorporating the
International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and relevant resolutions of the
World Health Assembly as a risk reduction measure to minimize the unnecessary use of infant formula and protect
breastfeeding,
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As a Certified Lactation Counselor and La Leche League
International - trained
breastfeeding peer counselor, she has worked with and provided advice and support to thousands of
breastfeeding mothers around the
world.
This finding underscoring the need for a comprehensive approach is supportive of the approach called for by the
World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, and by the United States Agency for
International Development in its
breastfeeding policy.
Most importantly, membership funds not only your local Group, but enables La Leche League
International to continue its mission of providing information and encouragement for
breastfeeding women around the
world.
This letter from the
International Baby Food Action Network, in partnership with the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative Network of Industrialized Nations (BFHI),
International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), La Leche League
International (LLLI),
World Alliance for
Breastfeeding Action (WABA) makes clear their insistence on clinging to old, discredited claims.
WABA works with many organizations to coordinate
World Breastfeeding Week, including United Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF),
World Health Organization (WHO), Academy of
Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM),
International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN),
International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), La Leche League
International (LLLI), and Wellstart
International.