Note: This module has now been updated to Module 1, v2.1, 2010. Module 1. Infant feeding in emergencies. For emergency relief staff. Orientation and...
For health and nutrition workers in emergency situations. Module 2 has been developed through interagency collaboration and consultation with many experts and field...
Christian Aid partner in Gaza requests baby milk after sewage flood: www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/218275/117552179971.htm An example of a request for...
Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Operational Guidance for Emergency Relief Staff and Policy-Makers. The guidance provides concise practical but mainly...
Sets out the 10 guiding principles on feeding of infants and young children during emergencies to prevent excess morbidity and mortality in emergencies. Covers...
Report of an international strategy meeting on infant and young child feeding in emergencies, held by the IFE Core Group in Oxford, 1-2 November, 2006.
Past Achievements, Present Challenges and Priority Actions for Infant and Young Child Feeding This report reviews the developments in breastfeeding promotion in the...
Presentation on the Operational Guidance on IFE, version 2.1, 2007, part of the IFE Orientation and Training Day 11th July 2007, held at the Institute of Child...
WHO Statement on iron supplementation of young children in regions where malaria transmission is intense and infectious disease highly prevalent
Summary of latest recommendations regarding HIV and infant feeding following a 3 day meeting in October 2006 that aimed to clarify and refine the existing UN...
Review of policies and guidance on infant feeding in emergencies, common ground and gaps. Disasters, 2001, 25(2), 136-148
From policy to practice: challenges in infant feeding in emergencies during the Balkan Crisis. Disasters, 2001, 25 (20), 149-163
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 infection during exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months of life: an intervention cohort study. Coovadia et al, Lancet...
Joint FAO/WHO Workshop on Enterobacter Sakazakii and Other Microorganisms in Powdered Infant Formula.
Child Survival II: How many child deaths can we prevent this year? THE LANCET • Vol 362 • July 5, 2003 • www.thelancet.com
Article published in online 'Mail & Guardian' South Africa 6th November...
100 breastfeeding peer counsellors trained in Indonesia following earthquake. Article and video. Also available here.
Research showing pasteurization of breastmilk may kill HIV, also available at:...
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/5738b6ae0b7ade99a8b72bc9c0afce7.htm
An article that appeared in the Telegraph newspaper on 16th December 2006. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/16/wmala16.xml
Long article on HIV and breastmilk vs formula from Zambia. www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA121706.01A.ZambiaAIDS.304c9dc.html
www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20061217.C01
Also available here.
www.allafrica.com/stories/200704021550.html
Guardian article supporting breastfeeding and criticising infant formula industry. commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/joanna_moorhead/2007/04/the_wrong_formula.html Nestle...
www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20070309.C02
Article also available here.
Article published in Australia on 3rd February 2007. www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/02/02/1169919534128.html
www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/planusa/117035748949.htm
www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2006/pr061226.html
Also available from: www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=61152
Also available from: www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/JBRN-6Y2F7E?OpenDocument
Also available from: www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6WH33K?OpenDocument
Also available from: www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/12/09/2003339733
News article about the floods in Indonesia in 2007 regarding infant feeding. www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/23/asia/AS-GEN-Indonesia-Flooded-Hospitals.php
Tanya Plibersek, Australian politician, comments on Australian foreign policy, and inappropriate use of infant formula...
Available from: www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/222031/116289365035.htm
Also available from: www.pcrf.net/emergency/emergency.html
Also available from: www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7734
Also available from: www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/249900/1/.html and www.standardnewswire.com/news/67589467.html
www.ncca.org.au/cws/at_work_with_our_partners/assistance_in_emergencies For briefing on East Timor see page 4.
Also available from: www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACIO-6WMDQJ?OpenDocument
Also available from: www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/JAK117949.htm
Also available from: armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=2003&CID=2080&IID=&lng=eng
Also available from: naazishyarkhan.blogspot.com/2007/02/true-spirit-of-ramadan-chicago-style.html
Also available from: www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/07/18373811.php
Also available from: www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HPN/18db00b1c08f59f11256b8a189f1835e.htm
www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/JBRN-6YPF57?OpenDocument In order to supply the dry rations for recently displaced people living in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu...
Also available from:...
Also available from: www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/249096/1/.html
Also available from: www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=15125
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/UNHCR/45efe1e6ff12b51b551e312a0ae04f27.htm
www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/mcguffin/20061205.html
www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=121568&version=1&template_id=45&parent_id=25
This short booklet aims to inform community members involved in disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, of essential precautions and measures that should be...
This publication sets out the challenges on improving infant and young child feeding practices, and the types of interventions governments and other stakeholders will...
A call for action following 15 years since the Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding and the 2002 Global Strategy for Infant...
Data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 43 countires between 1998-2004 on breastfeeding, consumption of food, etc compiled by USAID....
Research paper on bacteria in food products, with a special focus on infant formula and powdered milk. See also WHO Guidelines for the safe preparation, storage and...
IMPORTANT NOTE: These guidelines, leaflets and poster have NOT been made with the emergency setting in mind. Hence pictures of bottle feeding should be used with...
A manual and toolkit for behaviour change communication in emergencies from UNICEF ROSA. Target groups include: Prgramme managers from UN, NGOs, partners and governments.
Linkages and the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative produce this manual and materials from a four day training course for pre-service instructors of health...
Keynote address from the International Meeting on Infant Feeding in Emergency Situations by Dr Aileen Robertson. Event hosted by IBFAN, WEMOS & Baby Milk Action,...
The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, 1981, and subsequent resolutions by the WHO/UNICEF. The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk...
This leaflet, prepared by WABA for World Breastfeeding Week 2006, is a concise summary of the code that can be used to summarise it's meaning and importance. It can...
A Generation on: Baby milk marketing still putting children's lives at risk. Media briefing by Save the Children (UK) on the Code using examples from UK,...
A paper that describes how the use of infant formula contributes to diarrhoea in emergency and resource limited settings. Explains the causes of diarrhoea and how...
UNHCR policy on use of milk products in infant feeding in refugee settings. Originally written in 1989, and updated in 2006 with the help of the ENN, the IFE Core...
Joint policy on infant feeding from UNICEF, the WHO, and the Indonesian Society of Paediatricians (ISP) produced following the Tsunami. covers breastfeeding and...
This tool is designed to assist countries in: summarizing current data with regard to infant and young child feeding practices, assessing the strengths and...
Can put in survey details to add to data and also search it for background data on a country. Entry web page is here.
LINKAGES and its PROCOSI partners in Bolivia used this survey form to gather information on infant feeding practices among mothers of infants less than 12 months old....
LINKAGES and the ESHE Project used these 4 survey forms in Ethiopia for household interviews and interviews with mothers of infants 0-11 months, 12-23 months, and...
Part of a presentation on the Code for the IFE Orientation and Training day, held on 11th July 2007, at Institute of Child Health, London.
The Department for International Development(DFID)UKs recently published Humanitarian Funding Guidelines include a commitment to the implementation of the...
A two page flyer outlining how the media can help protect and support appropriate and safe infant and young child feeding in emergencies.
Diarrhoea risk associated with not breastfeeding in Botswana. Summary of report and presentation in Field Exchange 29, Dec 2006 p.22 Botswana diarrhoea outbreak...
1Bahl R, Frost C, Kirkwood BR, Edmond K, Martines J, Bhandari N, Arthur P. Infant feeding patterns and risks of death and hospitalisation in the first half of...
There are a number of infants who will not enjoy the benefits of breastfeeding. They include children born to HIV-positive mothers who choose not to breastfeed and...
A review of feeding guidelines promoted by various national and international organizations has shown that there are inconsistencies in the specific recommendations...
Describes the post-tsunami experience using Vitalita Sprinkles for children > 6 months. Saskia de Pee, Regina Moench-Pfanner, Elviyanti Martini, Stanley H....
Field Exchange 29 December 2006, p.11 Survey of weighing scales used for young infants, by staff working in emergencies. This led to the concept of a scales for 0-5...
Assessment of nutritional status of children under five years of age, pregnant women, and lactating women living in relief camps after the tsunami in Sri Lanka. R....
Field Exchange Nov 1999 Issue 8 p.27 How the emergency exacerbated poor pre-crisis practices, information on an IFE, survey, complementary feeding in emergencies.
A non-health / nutrition article about IFE in the context of the Lebanon crisis. Original article in Humanitarian Exchange, Humanitarian Practice News & ODI, March...
www.capersbookstore.com.au/birthissues/default.htm Article refers to the effect of stress and other myths related to breastfeeding in emergencies.
Feeding of infants and young children in tsunami affected villages in Pondicherry [India]. Adhisivam B, Srinivasan S, Soudarssanane MB, Deepa. Indian Pediatr. 2006...
O'Connor ME, Burkle FM Jr, Olness K Prehospital Disaster Med. 2001 Oct-Dec;16(4):231-8. The majority of deaths associated with complex emergencies are attributed to...
SCN News 2007: 37-42 Available online at: www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/SCNNews/scnnews34.pdf Outlines the background and work of the IFE Core Group and...
Summary of published paper in Field Exchange 25, May 2005, p.10. Published paper: Early exclusive breastfeeding reduces the risk of postnatal HIV-1 transmission and...
Summary of published paper in Field Exchange 29, December 2006, p.6 Published paper: Thior et al (2006). Breastfeeding Plus Infant Zidovudine Prophylaxis for 6...
This article shares the practical realities of identifying wet nurses for young orphans where artificial feeding is not considered a safe option, in a refugee setting...
Field Exchange 9, March 2000, page 7. Discusses supplemental suckling technique and provides tips.
Breastfeeding Journal 2007, 2:3. Also summarised in Field Exchange 31, September 2007, p.5-6 Abstract This paper is a narrative of some aspects of my work as a...
Available at: www.ibfan.org/site2005/Pages/article.php
A guide to help the general public understand their important role in protecting and supporting infants and young children caught up in crises worldwide. Focusing on...
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