The report is “The State of Breastfeeding in 33 Countries: 2010, Tracking Infant and Young Child Feeding Polices and Programmes Worldwide”.
The report presents findings in 10 areas of action as stated is the
WHO’s *Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding*. These 10 areas form core indicators of this programme-World Breastfeeding Trends initiative (WBT*i*) –a tool for action and central component of the global Breastfeeding Initiative for Child Survival (gBICS), which is-a joint IBFAN-WABA initiative launched in 2009.
Considering the UN Secretary General’s recently launched “*Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health* – having an output that in 2015 alone, *21.9 million more infants would be exclusively breastfed for first six months*, it would be important to look at the gaps in policy and programmes that support women and bridge them in order to enhance numbers of exclusively breastfed infants.Further, such an action would also help to increase the intervention coverage of feeding indicators in the “Countdown to 2015, Maternal New born and Child Survival report”
Hoping that this report and the WBT*i* would serve as a helpful tool for future action and work, we would welcome any comments as in the coming years we move to cover more countries as well as repeat assessments in same countries after 3-5 years to study trends. For your information WBT*i* portal (www.worldbreastfeedingtrends.org ) offers individual country reports in detail. To see graphics and make use of them you will have to register through a simple process.
The full report can also be downloaded from the website, and for those who need to get a hard copy, may please write to us with complete address.
The report's executive summary and a note for the international media are available from arun@ibfanasia.org
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Arun Gupta
mailto:arun@ibfanasia.org