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Infant and childhood health issues

Global strategy for infant and young child feeding (pdf 130kb)

This global strategy builds on gains made, especially the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (1991), the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (1981) and the Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding (1990) - in the overall context of national policies and programmes on nutrition and child health.

This strategy is also consistent with the World Declaration and Plan of Action for Nutrition, and it emphasises the need for comprehensive national policies on infant and young child feeding.

The guidelines ensure appropriate feeding of infants and young children in exceptionally difficult circumstances, and the need to ensure that all health services protect, promote and support exclusive breastfeeding and timely and adequate complementary feeding with continued breastfeeding.

 

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