Updated February 2022!

This quick guide summarizes the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (The Code) and relevant resolutions of the World Health Assembly that help protect breastfeeding around the globe.

Not breastfeeding leads to more than half a million child deaths annually and costs the world economy up to US$1 billion a day.

From 2010-2014, Alive & Thrive worked in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam to reduce undernutrition and death caused by sub-optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices.

Provides information and tools to create broad support for making infant and young child feeding a priority issue among regional and federal leaders in Ethiopia.