BMJ Letter on "when to wean: misleading article"

Resource: letter to BMJ

Letter to the BMJ regarding paper on exclusive breastfeeding rate and duration of breastfeeding.

FEX: Iron Pots: Not all Good News!

Summary of Published Letter* Guinea Earlier editions of Field Exchange have highlighted research on the potential role of using iron cooking pots to increase iron intake and...

The neglected refugee crisis: BMJ paper

A new paper in the BMJ 'The neglected refugee crisis Frontline states need more international aid' discusses the challenges facing the frontline states hosting refugees...

Resource: CDC Position on Benefits of Breastfeeding and Risks of Not Breastfeeding

A letter from Laurence Grummer-Strawn, Chief, Nutrition Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to WHO Philippines. CDC is the national public health...

The Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition study

The Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative has pooled together 13 studies with the hope of improving understanding of malaria-nutrition interactions during pregnancy...

Resource: Letter to Minister of Health and Long Term Care, Canada

Letter on IFE to Honourable George Smitherman Minister of Health and Long Term Care, Canada from Ontario Public Health Service. 06/06/2006 The letter basically points out the...

Resource: Nelson Mandela letter

Letter from Nelson Mandela for Action Against Hunger World Food Day award.

Resource: Impact of breastfeeding in emergency situations - Health Professionals

Letter to Hospitals, State WIC and Public Health Programs in the US

Resource: IYCF guidelines during relief and aid operation in response to Pakistan Earth Quake

Letter by Director General, Ministry of Health to agencies and others acting after the emergency.

FEX: Nestlé and the Code

A former employee of Nestle has publicised internal company documents that he says provide evidence that the company has breached the international code on marketing breast...

FEX: Famine relief and health care

The number of deaths caused by the ongoing drought in southern Africa could be greatly reduced by improving basic health care, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)....

FEX: Deworming children at military healthcare facilities in a combat zone: an opportunity not to be missed?

The BMJ published a letter1 in response to the deworming article above. This letter (summarised below) is written by members of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Royal...

FEX: FAO/WHO Meeting Warn of Contaminated Infant Formula

People caring for infants at high risk of infection should be warned that powdered infant formula is not a sterile product, a joint Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and...

FEX: Unicef sets up programme to prevent sex abuse by aid workers

Agencies working to relieve famine in southern Africa have embarked on a comprehensive training scheme to educate employees to avoid child abuse. The inter-agency taskforce,...

FEX: World Food Summit dubbed ‘Summit of the Poor’

The BMJ news section recently carried a small item on the World Food Summit held in Rome in June 2002.1 The report stated that heads of state and other officials from more than...

FEX: Funding too concentrated on ‘big three’ diseases

Certain tropical diseases are being unjustly ignored in Africa because funding is so heavily concentrated on the 'big three' (HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria), according to a news...

Resource: Condolenses & keep breastfeeding: Letter sent out during Hurricane Katrina, USA

Letter sent out on Sept 6, 2005 in response to Hurricane Katrina. Keep breastfeeding is the message www.usbreastfeeding.org/News-and-Events/Katrina-Condolenses.pdf

FEX: Scaling up ORS and zinc treatment for diarrhoea reduces mortality

Summary of editorial1 With most countries still not on track to achieve millennium development goal 4 - that of reducing child mortality by two thirds from 1990-2015, a recent...

FEX: Neonatal vitamin A supplementation to prevent mortality and morbidity in infancy

Summary of published review1 A recently published review set out to evaluate the effect of neonatal vitamin A supplementation on infant mortality, morbidity and early adverse...

FEX: Mental health in Afghanistan

Summary of published letter Following the events of September 11th all international aid workers of both local and INGO's were evacuated from Afghanistan. As a result, the task...

BMJ Letter on "when to wean: misleading article"

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