Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Susan and Karleen. I chose the US fund UNICEF as the recipient for the funds I raised through my personal Facebook campaign to bring attention to the need to support appropriate infant feeding methods in Haiti. 
http://www.causes.com/causes/436656

I will be contacting them and I will report back.

-- Jodine Chase
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

On 2011-02-01, at 6:02 AM, Karleen Gribble wrote:

> A few days ago Susan Burger posted about reading US fund for UNICEF's annual
> report, noticing that it did not mention breastfeeding once and the earful
> that she received from  a US Fund for UNICEF staff member who did not like
> this being pointed out. 
> 
> 
> 
> I had a look at the annual report today (you can too at
> http://www.unicefusa.org/news/publications/annual-report/Unicef_2010_AnnRepo
> rt_LR.pdf) it has several photos of infants, talks a lot about child
> survival but as Susan observed, not a single mention of the intervention
> that could prevent more under 5 year deaths than anything else (by a long
> shot) ie breastfeeding. In addition, it was interesting to note that Pfizer,
> which now owns Wyeth, is one of their major sources of funding. This is a
> clear conflict of interest. UNICEF policy and field workers are fighting a
> battle against companies such as Wyeth that are contributing to infant
> deaths through marketing practices which breach the International Code of
> Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.  Those of you who are in the US and
> have supported UNICEF (which really does some fabulous work in infant
> feeding) might like to contact US Fund for UNICEF and UNICEF headquarters
> (http://www.unicefusa.org/about/contact/ and
> http://www.unicef.org/about/contact_contactusform.php) and point out this
> omission and this conflict of interest. It might also be worth asking
> whether breastfeeding was omitted from the report because Pfizer is such an
> important source of funding for US Fund for UNICEF. 
> 
> Just note that US Fund for UNICEF is essentially a fund raising organisation
> and do little in the way of action themselves...they do however, have a
> responsibility to act ethically (accepting money from a Code breacher is not
> acting ethically), to represent the work of UNICEF accurately (and promoting
> good infant feeding practices is a core activity of UNICEF- especially in
> emergencies) and to educate their supporters about what really helps
> children (and as I mentioned helping mothers to exclusively breastfeeding
> and continue breastfeeding could prevent more deaths than anything else).
> US Fund for UNICEF does not have a good track record in understanding the
> importance of good infant feeding practices and in presenting this
> information to their supporters...that will change if enough pressure is
> applied.
> 
> 
> 
> Those who do contact UNICEF, I'd be interested in hearing what sort of
> response you get.
> 
> 
> 
> Karleen Gribble
> 
> Australia
> 
> 
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