BREASTFEEDING – WHO UNICEF – CHILDREN’S HEALTH IMPROVEMENTS
December 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations children's agency UNICEF is claiming that encouraging mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies for the first six months of their lives could prevent 1.3 million premature deaths. Celebrating the 15th anniversary of a UN declaration promoting breastfeeding, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) claim six million infants' lives are being saved annually because of successful global efforts to promote breastfeeding, which they say have risen 15% since this Innocenti Declaration. It also inspired a 'baby-friendly' ...
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