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New Lancet Series highlights the continuing struggle that breastfeeding women face across the globe
A Lancet Series published on Feb. 8, 2023, highlights the continuing struggle that women across the globe face to meet their breastfeeding goals. Yale School of Public Health Professor Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, a leading authority on breastfeeding policy and early childhood nutrition, is co-author of all three Series articles and the lead author of the first paper featured in the Series.
7 Feb 2023
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Health experts call for an end to exploitative baby formula milk marketing tactics
Less than half of infants around the world are breastfed as recommended, and baby formula is in high demand despite failing to offer the same health and developmental benefits as breast milk, experts say. According to a new report, misleading claims and political influence are to blame.
Source: CNN
6 Feb 2023
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Yale School of Public Health Partnership with Mexico Leads to New Online Implementation Science Course
A new YSPH partnership with the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico has led to the launch of an online Spanish language summer course in implementation science for health professionals.
20 Jul 2021
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Data initiative seeks to improve early childhood development in Brazil
An index that evaluates the performance of municipalities for early childhood development was developed through a partnership between researchers from Yale and Brazilian universities. Yale School of Public Health associate researcher Gabriela Buccini explains the partnership project that monitors early childhood development indicators in Brazil.
3 Dec 2020
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Rafael Pérez-Escamilla
When Rafael Pérez-Escamilla was a chemical engineer in Mexico he observed many people suffering from hunger and malnutrition.
4 Feb 2019
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Se realizó Sexto Foro Nacional de Lactancia Materna 2018. La Transformación empieza con la Lactancia
Al inaugurar el “Sexto Foro Nacional de Lactancia Materna 2018. La Transformación empieza con la Lactancia”, la diputada Martha Tagle Martínez dijo que alimentar al bebé con leche materna durante la primera hora de vida, puede prevenir hasta 22% de muertes neonatales.
Source: Plenilunia
4 Oct 2018
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Is Infant Formula Ever A Good Option In Poor Countries?
The long-running breast milk vs. formula debate made headlines earlier this week. The first problem arises because powdered formula requires a dependable source of clean water, which is not available to some 780 million people, according to the World Health Organization.
Source: NPR Goats and Soda
13 Jul 2018
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New Zealand’s Train the Trainers
The New Zealand Breastfeeding Alliance (NZBA) is responsible for offering Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative(BFHI) and Baby-Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI) Train-the-Trainer three-day workshops.
14 Jun 2018
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Sri Lanka’s Lactation Management Centers
Sri Lanka's Lactation Management Centers (LMCs) assist mothers who need breastfeeding support, are funded by the Ministry of Health, and are located in every specialist hospital that provides maternity services and newborn care.
13 Jun 2018
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New Zealand’s Diverse Breastfeeding Promotion Campaign
In 2008, the Government of New Zealand funded the Ministry of Health (MoH) to develop and implement a national breastfeeding promotion campaign based on formative research and designed to target groups with disparately low breastfeeding rates such as Māori and Pacific people.
13 Jun 2018
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Philippine’s Budgetary Steps and Setbacks
A 2004 WHO assessment on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in the Philippines found the country was performing poorly on IYCF health indicators, and thus spurred the development of a IYCF National Plan of Action in 2005 and subsequent IYCF Program.
13 Jun 2018
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Social Insurance in Viet Nam Fully Covers Maternity Leave
Viet Nam’s maternity leave is among the longest in Asia– female workers are entitled to 6 months paid maternity leave and entitled to 100% of their salaries funded through compulsory social insurance premiums.
4 Jun 2018
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Mali's Maternity Protection
In 2008, Mali became the first African country to ratify the ILO Maternity Protection Convention 2000 (Convention No. 183), which stipulates a minimum of 14 weeks of maternity leave.
4 Jun 2018
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Philippines Senator Serves as Breastfeeding Champion
Senator Pia Cayetano is an example of a breastfeeding champion who has used her position in the national government to protect, promote, and support Philippine women’s right to breastfeed and defines herself as “a staunch breastfeeding advocate”.
4 Jun 2018
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Public Health Midwives in Sri Lanka
A longitudinal study in Sri Lanka on the effect of training public health midwives on exclusive breastfeeding reported a highly significant increase in the percentage of mothers breastfeeding their infants for 6 months, as well as the median duration of exclusive breastfeeding–all for a relatively low cost. Today, Sri Lanka has one of the top breastfeeding outcomes in the world with 99% of children ever-breastfed and 82% breastfed exclusively in the first six months in 2016.
4 Jun 2018
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Peru’s Continuous Demographic and Health Survey
In Peru, the Continuous Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) provides annual data on the initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding under six months, solid foods introduction, and median breastfeeding duration at the national, urban-rural, and departmental (regional) levels of Peru.
4 Jun 2018
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Viet Nam Fortifies Legislation
In 2006, Viet Nam adopted Decree 21, based on the International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes and strengthened the legislation in 2014 to limit advertisements of milk products for children over one year of age and for feeding bottles, teats, and dummies.
1 Jun 2018
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Austria’s Paid Maternity Leave
In 2004, the Austrian government ratified the ILO Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183). Since then, this legislation has been updated many times with the most recent in 2015 stipulating 16 weeks paid maternity leave.
1 Jun 2018
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Sweden’s Maternity and Paternity Leave
Sweden ranked third in the world for Save the Children’s 15th annual Mother’s Index in 2014 and Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare reported that in 2015, 63% of infants were breastfed at 6 months of age.
1 Jun 2018
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India's Infant Milk Substitutes Act, Monitoring, and Enforcement
Suboptimal breastfeeding practices contribute to approximately 12% of deaths among children under five years of age; in India, this contribution is significant as exclusive breastfeeding rates are as low as 35.8% in some Indian states. In 2003, India strengthened their Infant Milk Substitutes (IMS) legislation to ban sponsorship to health care professionals and health organizations by infant formula companies. Violation of the IMS act is a criminal offense and may result in fines and imprisonment.
30 May 2018