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Video
03 December 2024
Exclusive breastfeeding: Celebrating successes and accelerating progress by 2030
This webinar, held on 20 November 2024 and hosted by WHO, UNICEF, and SUN Movement, celebrates progress toward meeting the 2025 Global Nutrition Target for exclusive breastfeeding while outlining actions needed to accelerate progress toward meeting related 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The webinar: Highligh...
Report
02 December 2024
Regulating Digital Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes
Digital marketing has become the dominant form of promoting formula throughout the world, yet fewer than 20% of countries explicitly prohibit promotion of breast-milk substitutes on digital platforms such as social media and websites. This brief outlines 10 key guidance recommendations from WHO, designed to suppor...
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16 October 2024
Sponsorship of health professional associations by manufacturers and distributors of commercial milk formula
This brief offers suggestions as to how a healthcare association can fund educational programmes, congresses, conferences, and other meetings without sponsorship by companies that market foods for infants and young children. Innovative ideas are offered both for reducing costs without compromising quality or atten...
Document
16 October 2024
Sponsorship of health professional associations by manufacturers and distributors of commercial milk formula
This brief describes how six Health Care Professional Associations (HCPAs) in different countries and years successfully ended sponsorship of HCPA events by companies that market foods for infants and young children. Each country’s story is presented in an easy-to-read Q&A format and offers rich insight for th...
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03 October 2024
Sponsorship of health professional associations by manufacturers and distributors of commercial milk formula
This document provides a model policy that healthcare professional associations may use to support implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation that companies that market foods for infants and young children should not sponsor meetings of health professionals and scientific meetings, and th...
Report
16 August 2024
Countering Industry Arguments Against Code Implementation: Evidence and Rights-Based Responses
This resource for policymakers and breastfeeding advocates presents the 36 most common arguments the baby food industry uses to oppose Code legislation, alongside responses and counter-arguments based in scientific evidence and international human rights law.When countries begin to implement Code legislation, baby...
Video
31 July 2024
Make Every Voice Count: How Monitoring Breastfeeding Programs and Policies Supports Mothers
Voices of Mothers Hero Image Behind every statistic about breastfeeding is a mother trying to reach her infant feeding goals. This video highlights the connections between monitoring breastfeeding programs and policies and the experiences of mothers. This video was created as a part of the “Strength In Numbers” presentation of the Global…
Report
26 June 2024
Ten Steps/BFHI Social Media Toolkit
Amplify the impact of the Ten Steps and the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative. Use this social media toolkit to share the stories of mothers, babies, and health care workers. In this kit, find sample language along with social media tiles you can download and share on your social media platforms.This kit’s posts are “evergreen” and not connected to any one event or timepeg. You are welcome to share the posts on a schedule that works well for your...
Video
17 June 2024
77th World Health Assembly Side Event on Digital Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
This Side Event on Digital Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, held during the 77th World Health Assembly, presents new evidence on the concerning rise of aggressive digital marketing of breastmilk substitutes and its pervasive and misleading impact on pregnant women, parents, and society. The presentation includes a detailed look at the 2024…
Report
03 June 2024
Advocacy Brief
International labour standards for maternity protection have existed for over a century, yet half a billion women around the globe still lack essential maternity protections. This advocacy brief summarizes the status of maternity protections worldwide in the areas of maternity leave, mandated workplace nursing fac...
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19 June 2023
Clarification on sponsorship of health professional and scientific meetings by companies that market
Companies that market any commercially produced food or beverage product (including complementary foods) specifically for infants and children between 6 and 36 months of age should not sponsor meetings of health professionals and scientific meetings; and health workers, health systems, and health professional associations should not accept…
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19 June 2023
Protecting Infant and Young Child Nutrition from Industry Interference and Conflicts of Interest
The baby food industry's interference in policy-making and implementation processes, and the conflicts of interest this creates in health care systems, have limited progress on Code implementation. This clear guide explains the often-hidden processes at work and serves as a call to action for health authorities, health care workers, and…
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