Brief

May 07 2021

World Health Assembly Resolution on the Inappropriate Promotion of Foods for Infants and Young Children

This policy brief helps country governments, non-governmental organizations and private companies understand and adopt the World Health Organization Guidance on Ending the Inappropriate Promotion of Foods for Infants and Young Children.

Video

May 06 2021

Webinar series on the WHO Code and global guidance on marketing infant foods

This excellent series from Helen Keller International's ARCH Nutrition, published in 2017, begins with an overview of the World Health Organization’s International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and the history of its implementation since adoption by the World Health Assembly in 198

Report

May 06 2021

BMS review VN cover

Review of Status of BMS Code Implementation in Vietnam

Adopted in 2006, Decree 21 on the Trade and Use of Nutrition Products for Young Children aims to promote optimal breastfeeding practices by limiting how and where breastmilk substitutes and other nutrition products for young children can be promoted.

Journal article

Nov 15 2019

Translating the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes into national measures in nine countries (Michaud-Letourneau, I., 2018. Maternal & Child Nutrition)

This paper investigates how the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) was translated from an international policy framework to protect breastfeeding against inappropriate marketing practices into national level legislation, in the context of the advocacy efforts un

Brief

Sep 20 2019

BMS Advocacy Briefs

These briefs provide guidance to various stakeholders on the enforcement of the Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes in Nigeria.

 
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