Journal article
Apr 26 2021
Misalignment of global COVID-19 breastfeeding and newborn care guidelines with World Health Organization recommendations (Hoang, D.V., 2020. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health)
Guidance documents from 33 countries on newborn care for infants whose mothers are diagnosed with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 were assessed for alignment with WHO recommendations, revealing considerable inconsistencies.
Journal article
Apr 22 2021
Old Tricks, New Opportunities: How Companies Violate the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes and Undermine Maternal and Child Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Ching, C., 2021. Int'l Journal of Environmental Research and Pub Hth)
An analysis reveals that breastmilk substitutes companies are using health claims, misinformation about breastfeeding, digital marketing, and promotional tactics such as donations and services to capitalize on families’ COVID-19 fears to undermine breastfeeding and sell products.
Journal article
Feb 16 2021
Factor Structure and Equivalence of Maternal Resources for Care in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Ethiopia (Basnet, S., 2020. Maternal & Child Nutrition)
Maternal resources for care in Bangladesh, Viet Nam, and Ethiopia were revealed to be structurally similar and measurement equivalent.
Brief
Feb 09 2021
Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care and Immediate Postnatal Care in Burkina Faso / Interventions Nutritionnelles dans le cadre des soins prénatals et postnatals immédiats
This brief presents baseline study findings on maternal nutrition in Burkina Faso.
Cette note présente les résultats d'une enquête de base sur la nutrition maternelle au Burkina Faso.
Journal article
Dec 08 2020
Mistakes from the HIV pandemic should inform the COVID-19 response for maternal and newborn care (Gribble, K., 2020. International Breastfeeding Journal)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, policy makers and practitioners must learn from mistakes made during the HIV pandemic, when breastfeeding was undermined through isolating infants from their mothers, and formula feeding resulted in more infant deaths than the disease.
Poster/Graphic, Handout
Nov 10 2020
Stronger with breastmilk only campaign resources
In 2019, UNICEF, the World Health Organization and Alive & Thrive launched a regional campaign to increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding across West Africa - the Stronger With Breastmilk Only initiative.