Those of you that belong to ILCA will be receiving the entire booklet with
the next issue of JHL (May). Also ILCA has been very proactive at the UN and
with UNICEF regarding the Global Strategy. See Margot Mann's report on the ILCA
website.
Nancy Jo Ericksen

> Global Strategy: Breastfeeding critical for child survival
> UNICEF and WHO call for increased commitment to appropriate feeding
> practices
> for all infants and young children
>
> 23 MARCH 2004 | NEW YORK -- Calling on governments to promote and protect
> breastfeeding, UNICEF and WHO today jointly launched the Global Strategy for
> Infant and Young Child Feeding. The document, developed over two years of
> global
> consultation, pinpoints the main problems affecting infant and young child
> feeding and identifies approaches to their solution.
>
> <snip>
>
> The Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, available in six
> languages, was presented by UN Under Secretary-General for Management
> Catherine
> Bertini on 23 March to the Standing Committee on Nutrition session at the
> UN. It
> was distributed 24 March during a session on Breastfeeding and Complementary
> Feeding and their contribution to achieving the UN Millennium Development
> Goals.
>
> see link for entire press release:
> http://www.who.int/mediacentre/releases/2004/pr19/en/
>
>
> Source document:
>
> To access the entire document "Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child
> Feeding"
> Read it, or print it off, online as a PDF (36 pages):
> http://www.unicef.org/media/files/gs_infant_feeding_text_eng.


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