Breastmilkonly.com, the online home of the Stronger With Breastmilk Only regional initiative, has been redesigned, in collaboration with UNICEF and WHO.

A breastfeeding promotion intervention in private facilities in Lagos, which included training for healthcare providers, increased the percentage of exclusively breastfed infants but had no impact on early initiation of breastfeeding.

This brief describes A&T’s new and ongoing efforts to scale up MIYCN interventions in Nigeria.

Building on experiences and lessons learned from its first five years in Ethiopia, Alive & Thrive Phase II (2014-2017) provided support to roll out elements of the government’s multi-sectoral National Nutrition Program (NNP) aimed at improving breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices