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Here a Facebook link to a new piece by Al Jazeera.
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/1270605203080984/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1024119708172394496
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This Round Table discussion went out on Turkish TV on Thursday 26th July. Alice Delemare, Campaign adviser at Changing Markets; Patti Rundall, Policy Director at Baby Milk Action; Sabita Uthaya, Consultant in Neonatal Medicine at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital; and Mitch Blair, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Public Health at Imperial College London. The two Turkish TV discussions are interesting, touching on sponsorship and research issues.
Round table – Baby business: Is the milk formula industry too powerful?
Here’s another good report on TRT: Infant Formula: An ethical Issue
https://www.trtworld.com/video/roundtable/infant-formula-an-ethical-industry/5b59bce90ab8e2110baea623
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Nepali Times: Back to the nipple in Nepal More Nepali mothers now exclusively breastfeeding babies for better health. July 27, 2018
Lawyer: Donald Trump called me ‘disgusting’ for request to pump breast milk
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/29/politics/trump-breast-pump-statement/index.html
Other coverage
Mother Jones: The UN Encourages Breastfeeding. Donald Trump Is Lying About It. Jul. 9, 2018 1:44 PM
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/07/the-un-encourages-breastfeeding-donald-trump-is-lying-about-it/
Pew Trusts: The U.S. Targeted Breastfeeding Abroad. Here at Home, It’s Another Story.
Why it would have been wise to call for a vote at the 71st WHA
During the 1994 World Health Assembly, the USA and EU objected to a Resolution calling for an end to donations and discounted sales of formula to health care systems. When African delegates threatened to call for a roll call (a vote) all sides withdrew their objections and global consensus on the code was achieved for the first time. Our report in Update 14, October 1994 is below.
