Patricia and Tania -- The Code of Professional Conduct **does** discuss the
WHO Code ... go up to the third paragraph in the intro.

This document is **significantly different** from the version that was
posted in August 2011 for public comment by stakeholders.  Not a lot of
words were different -- but the ramifications are profound.

(1)  IBLCE now articulates that it was founded to provide the IBCLC exam in
a manner that **protects the public health safety and welfare.**  That key
phrase HAD to be in there, somewhere, to demonstrate that standards of its
accrediting organization NCCA are being met.  Score one for the Commenters.

(2)  They pedaled back from the confusing use of the term "Code" to
describe the "Code of Professional Conduct" ... which many folks use as
shorthand for the [WHO] International Code.  Instead, we are to nickname it
"CPC," which makes much more sense.  Score another for the Commenters.

(3)  IBLCE also corrected that egregious error mis-stating  the reason why
IBLCE was founded.  It is now clear:  while IBLCE endorses other important
human rights and ethics documents ... it was founded to conduct the IBCLC
exam, protecting the public health safety and welfare all along the way.
 Score another for the Commenters.

(4)  The elephant in the room.  The WHO Code.  The August 2011 version
merely "encouraged" the IBCLC to uphold the standards articulated in the
WHO Code.

The Nov 2011 version states "A crucial part of the IBCLC's **duty** to
protect mothers and children is adherence to to the principles and aim of
[the WHO Code.]"

Sounds pretty darned mandatory to me.

EXCEPT when you go read the FAQs, which are supposed to explain and support
this CPC, we have all sorts of confusing and contradictory language and
examples. A total of 8 FAQs are posited ... 4 have to do with the WHO Code
... and those four are just a hot mess.  We can go to marketer-sponsored
lunches and give out discharge bags ...?  Yet it is a **duty** to
**adhere** to the WHO Code?

Sigh.

I gotta tell you though. This final version -- if you can ignore the
remaining confusion about WHO Code applicability -- is a huge improvement
over what we saw in August.

-- 
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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