Handout
Oct 14 2020
Frequently Asked Questions about the Cost of Not Breastfeeding tool
Not breastfeeding leads to more than half a million child deaths annually and costs the world economy up to US$1 billion a day.
Announcement
Jun 01 2020
The Maternal, Infant, Young Child & Adolescent Nutrition Update newsletter
Click below to read past editions of the MIYCAN Update is Alive & Thrive's quarterly global newsletter.
Journal article
Feb 25 2020
The cost of not breastfeeding: global results from a new tool (Walters, D., 2019. Health Policy and Planning)
A billion dollars and two thousand lives, every day. This impactful study, which is the foundation for Alive and Thrive’s online tool, examines the human and economic costs of not breastfeeding.
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
Aug 06 2019
Advocacy Brief: The global cost of not breastfeeding
The human costs of not breastfeeding are enormous: 600,000 children and 100,000 women die every year due to illnesses that could be prevented by breastfeeding. This advocacy brief presents the key findings of the Cost of not breastfeeding tool developed by researchers health economist Dr.
