Breastfeeding and feeding of small and sick newborns
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The World Health Organization (WHO) launched its new guidelines for care of preterm or low-birth-weight (LBW) newborns on November 17, 2022 - World Prematurity Day. These recommendations follow a two-year process of systematic reviews and grading of evidence by a group of independent experts. A number of recommendations are new,...
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A Story of True Grit Salma, 33-year-old mother of two boys aged 6 and 8 years old, has had chronic kidney disease for the last two years. She was prescribed steroids and immunosuppressant therapy; she stopped on her own after some symptomatic improvement after she took them for only six...
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Written by Andrea García Charnichart, Emergency Nutrition Advisor at Save the Children Latin America and the Caribbean Breastfeeding: Barriers and Opportunities Breastfeeding saves lives. Not only because it provides protection and nutrition to newborns, but also because it guarantees food security through access to the quantity, quality, availability, and use...
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This blog was originally published on LinkedIn. Written by Mr. Joseph Gaithuma and Ms. Rachel Kavithe, Kavle Consulting, LLC. (more…)
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Aziza Ramadhani Kitwiku, 29, has a primary school education and is a housewife and mother of three children in Tanzania. Below, she shares the different experiences of delivering and caring for her first two children compared to her third child, who is now seven-months-old and was conceived after she joined...
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