Six months after Pakistan quake, child nutrition and health care are key concerns

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-6NM4FH?OpenDocument

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Impact on breastfeeding 

Before the earthquake struck, Pakistan's national breastfeeding rate was 93 per cent. In quake-affected areas, that rate has dropped in recent months as a result of the trauma of deaths and illnesses, the difficulties of displacement and inadequate food supplies -- all factors that have challenged women's ability to maintain exclusive breastfeeding for their infants. 

Jalila describes how difficult it was for her to see how Shazia started to lose weight once she was weaned from exclusive breastfeeding at the age of just seven months. Her experience is a poignant indicator of how lack of food and reduced breastfeeding can put children at high risk in their first months of life. 

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Janice Reynolds

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