WBW2016
Celebrate the World Breastfeeding Week 2016 by making breastfeeding a key to Sustainable Development! #WBW2016
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Example field tool used by ACF in Indonesia to conduct a breastfeeding assessment at the individual level.
Resource: US Breastfeeding Committee urges support of b/feeding in aftermath of Katrina
Hurricane, Katrina, USA 19th Sept 2005. United States Breastfeeding Committee www.usbreastfeeding.org/News-and-Events/PR-2005-09-19-Disaster.pdf
Resource: Report on Breastfeeding Consultancy
Report on consultance from Sept - Dec 1999, detailing breastfeeding rates, information and training. http://www.euro.who.int/Document/Nut/infantkosovo.pdf
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Viktorija Nesterovaite (2016). WBW2016. www.ennonline.net/newsroom/wbw2016