Information on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies for UNICEF Offices and Partners
Author: UNICEF
Resource type: Field tool
This leaflet is available on the following US Breastfeeding website: www.usbreastfeeding.org/Issue-Papers/Emergency.pdf
The same information from this leaflet can be found on the website of the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles, but without the reference to the Indian Ocean crisis: www.breastfeedingtaskforla.org/unicef-emergency-feeding-guidelines.htm
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UNICEF (2005). Information on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies for UNICEF Offices and Partners. www.ennonline.net/iycfinformationunicef