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New Guidance: 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

New Guidance: 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

WHO and UNICEF issued Wednesday new ten-step guidance to increase support for breastfeeding in health facilities that provide maternity and newborn services. Breastfeeding all babies for the first 2 years would save the lives of more than 820 000 children under age 5 annually. The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding…
Laws to Protect Breastfeeding Inadequate: Report

Laws to Protect Breastfeeding Inadequate: Report

A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) reveals the status of national laws to protect and promote breastfeeding. Of the 194 countries analysed in the report, 135 have in place some form of legal measure related to the International…
World Breastfeeding Week: 1–7 August 2015

World Breastfeeding Week: 1–7 August 2015

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August in more than 170 countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration signed in August 1990 by government policymakers, WHO, UNICEF and other organizations to protect, promote and…
UNICEF Asks to Invest in the Health of Poor Children

UNICEF Asks to Invest in the Health of Poor Children

Investing in the health and survival of the most deprived children and communities provides more value for money, saving almost twice as many lives for every US$1 million spent as equivalent investments in less deprived groups, according to a new UNICEF analysis. Narrowing the Gaps: The power of investing in…
Polio Immunization Campaign Reaches 5 Million Children in Yemen

Polio Immunization Campaign Reaches 5 Million Children in Yemen

Amid escalating violence, UNICEF and partners have completed the first round of a nationwide door-to-door vaccination campaign reaching 5 million children under the age of five with oral polio vaccine and vitamin A supplementation. In the first campaign of its kind this year, 40,000 vaccinators spread across Yemen to provide…
How Breastmilk Reduces a Child’s Risk of Death

How Breastmilk Reduces a Child’s Risk of Death

According to UNICEF, 77 million newborns globally are not breastfed within first hour of life and delayed breastfeeding increases risk of newborn deaths by up to 80 per cent. Some 77 million newborns – or 1 in 2 – are not put to the breast within an hour of birth,…
Conflict Affected Brains of 87 Million Children: UNICEF

Conflict Affected Brains of 87 Million Children: UNICEF

More than 86.7 million children under the age of 7 have spent their entire lives in conflict zones, putting their brain development at risk, UNICEF said today. During the first 7 years of life a child’s brain has the potential to activate 1,000 brain cells every second. Each one of…