During humanitarian crises — such as conflicts or severe droughts that are threatening millions of children in Afghanistan, Yemen, Ukraine, the Horn of Africa or the Sahel — the lifesaving importance ...

UNICEF and the World Health Organization are calling on all governments to invest in resources to protect, promote and support breastfeeding policies and programs, particularly for the most vulnerable ...

The Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Bauchi Field Office, Philomena Irene, says fathers also have vital roles in the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding, as the families’ decision makers. Irene stated ...

Mums supporting new parents is already having an impact on breastfeeding rates, a hospital says.

The wife of Imo State Governor, Dr.(Mrs.) Chioma Uzodimma, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), has launched a campaign to ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with Niger Ministry for Primary Healthcare has mobilised 1,800 women to promote exclusive breastfeeding in the state. Gerida Birukila, ...

In a statement on the annual global event, UNICEF’s Nigeria Country Representative Cristian Munduate said improved breastfeeding practices could also help the country to save $22 million in healthcare ...

In the last 12 years, the number of infants under six months of age globally who are exclusively breastfed has increased by more than 10%. This means 48% of infants worldwide now benefit from this ...

UNICEF is focusing on breastfeeding as the most effective and inexpensive way of saving a child’s life in this year’s World Breastfeeding Week. But with less than half of all children under six months ...

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