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.

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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.pdf

You can order a copy here (US$9):
http://www.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?sesslan=1&codlan=1&codcol=15
&codcch=510




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