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World Breastfeeding Week 2009

global week of breastfeeding is the most widespread social movement in defense of breastfeeding. It is celebrated in 120 countries, from 1 to 7 August, the anniversary of the Innocenti Declaration, signed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in August 1990

This year is the central theme

Strengthen the vital role that breastfeeding plays
response to emergencies worldwide.

• active advocate for the protection and support of breastfeeding, before and during emergencies. Inform
• Mothers-as defenders of Breastfeeding Communities Health staff, Governments, humanitarian agencies, Donors, Media and others on how they can actively support breastfeeding, before and during emergencies.
• develop collaborative actions and create networks of support among those who have experience in managing breastfeeding individuals and organizations involved in emergency response.

No place is immune from emergencies. These can occur anywhere in the world. In an earthquake or conflict, flood or pandemic flu, the story is always the same: Breastfeeding saves lives.
During emergencies, "as infants, children and young girls are particularly vulnerable to malnutrition, disease and death (1).
Experience shows the following facts:

• infant mortality rates published for less than a year in emergency situations are much higher ordinarily, having a range from 12 to 53%.
• large programs in therapeutic feeding in 2005 in Nigeria, 95% of 43.529 cases of malnutrition admitted to therapeutic foster care, were children under 2 years. (2)
• In a feeding program treatment in Afghanistan, the mortality rate was 17.2% among Infants under 6 months admitted for therapeutic care (3).
• During the first three months of the conflict in Guinea Bissau in 1998, the mortality rate among children of 9-20 months are not breastfed was 6 times higher than those of the same age who are breastfed. (4)

1. WHO and UNICEF. Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.
2003, Geneva: World Health Organization.
2. Isabelle Defourny, Emmanuel Drouhin, Mego Terzian, Mercedes Tatay, Johanne Sekkenes
and Milton Tectonidis. Scaling up the treatment of acute childhood malnutrition in Niger.
Field Exchange. 2006. 28:3. http://fex.ennonline.net/28/scalingup.aspx
3. Golden M. Comment on including infants in nutrition surveys: experiences of ACF in Kabul
City. Field Exchange. 2000. 9:16-17.
4. Jacobsen. M et al. Breastfeeding status as a predictor of mortality among refugee children
in an emergency situation in Guinea-Bissau. Tropical Medicine and International Health,
2003. volume 8, no 11, pp 992-996.


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