World Breastfeeding Week

In the news:

The World Breast Feeding Day whose celebration starts today, raises important issues through its theme, ‘Breastfeeding, vital response.’

The week will be used to highlight extreme situations to which children are exposed putting their health and survival to greater risk in developing countries like Tanzania.

The celebrations come at a time when the global financial crunch has impacted on many families’ abilities to provide for their children, which nutritionists argue, could give the opportunity to low income households to exclusively use breastfeeding for their children through out the first 2 years of infancy.

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