Save the Children has published an important new report Don’t push it that clearly shows that the Baby food industry is continuing to use marketing practices that undermine breastfeeding and child health, while pretending to abide by the World Health…
40 years ago, the Kennedy Hearings put the baby food industry under the spotlight
US Senate Hearings, Infant formula in Developing countries, 23rd May 1978 This is an important compilation of excerpts of the testaments given at the Senator Edward Kennedy Hearing. The Hearing helped prompt the eventual adoption of the International Code in…
WHO and UNICEF publish Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
Click here for the original 10 steps (1991) Click Here for ‘revised’ 10 Steps (2018) 11 April 2018 WHO and UNICEF has issued new guidance to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in health facilities. See the press release below and:…
Comment on: Lessons from Interactions between public health and the food and drinks industry
Lessons from interactions between public health and the food and drinks industry This new report from the UK Health Forum contains experiences from a dozen Public Private Partnerships and Multi-Stakeholder (MSH) arrangements in Nutrition that focus on voluntary self-regulated initiatives.…
Global Breastfeeding Collective
Global Breastfeeding Collective The Global Breastfeeding Collective brings together implementers and donors from governments, philanthropies, international organizations, civil society and is led by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi The Initiative’s vision is a world in which…