Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
Author: WHO
Year: 2003
Resource type: Official
This publication sets out the challenges on improving infant and young child feeding practices, and the types of interventions governments and other stakeholders will need to undertake in order to achieve the objectives, and the obligations and responsibilities of governments and other interested parties.
Also see the Planning Guide for national implementation of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding that highlights how to make this global strategy into national policy.
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WHO (2003). Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding. www.ennonline.net/globalstrategyiycfarticle
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