World Breastfeeding Week being observed

Pakistan

 ISLAMABAD: World Breastfeeding Week is being observed from August 1 to August 7 across the globe, including Pakistan.

India: High rate of breastfeeding among Assam mothers

India HNN Team

Breastfeeding rate is strikingly low across the country but Assam shows encouraging trends with 63.1 per cent exclusively going for breastfeed of their children, making it the second highest in the country.

Breastfeeding in first hour after birth can save 16 out of 100 kids

India HNN Team

The Ministry of Women and Child Development has mobilized district health workers in MP to educate mothers about the benefits of breastfeeding. 

Rwandan mothers best in breastfeeding- report

Rwanda, Kenya HNN Team

“Breastfeeding is not only crucial for tackling malnutrition and saving children’s lives, it also has the potential to have tangible impacts on the economic and social development of countries across Africa.”

Comment: Superfood for Babies

South Africa HNN Team

It’s World Breastfeeding Week and government and Save the Children have joined forces to promote breastfeeding to save children’s lives.

Breastfeeding needs more aid

HNN Team

In his commentary, Dr. Arun Gupta writes that breastfeeding is a public health priority requiring social, political, legal and financial interventions.

Breastfeeding is the cheapest and most effective life-saver in history – UNICEF

Cambodia, Chad, China, Indonesia, Somalia HNN Team

Despite the well documented benefits of breastfeeding worldwide, only 39 per cent of children aged less than six months were exclusively breastfed in 2012. This global figure has improved very little for the past several decades.

WHO aims to increase global rate of breastfeeding for six months to 50% by 2025

HNN Team

Mothers are often inundated with incorrect and biased information both directly, through advertising, health claims, information packs and sales representatives, and indirectly through the public health system, the report notes

Women need accurate information, support to promote breastfeeding, says UN agency

HNN Team

"In many cases, women are discouraged from doing so (breastfeeding), and are misled to believe that they are giving their children a better start in life by buying commercial substitutes.”

Tanzania: Breastfeed newborns with colostrum, mothers urged

Tanzania, United Republic of HNN Team

Prisca Mwenda, a resident of Tchenzema Village in Mvomero district urged expectant mothers to shun myths that colostrum was unsafe for babies’ growth.