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World Breastfeeding Week

26 Aug 2023
A public health physician and field epidemiologist with bias for reproductive health and HIV/AIDS Control, Dr. Uloaku Emma-Ukaegbu, has lamented that despite the extant national breastfeeding policy and the 2015-2020 Action Plan, there is no legislative backing to support their implementation in the country.
18 Aug 2023
Among nearly 10 million American infants born between 2016 and 2018, breastfed babies were 33 per cent less likely to die during the post-perinatal period (day 7-364) than infants who were not breastfed, reports a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier. 
15 Aug 2023
World Breastfeeding Week aims to highlight the huge benefits that breastfeeding can bring to the health and welfare of babies, benefits to maternal health; focusing on good nutrition, poverty reduction, and food security.

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