Infant and Young Child Feeding Practice in Nepal

Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies.

Infant and Young Child Feeding Status in Iran Compared the Different United Nation Regions

Promote and support breastfeeding is an essential element for the health and development of infants so that, it introduced as most cost-effective intervention to reduce infant mortality in developing countries (1). Breastfeeding has an important role to ensure food security for maintain a healthy and productive life for a large proportion of babies in the world, in addition, it is associated wi...

Policy content and stakeholder network analysis for infant and young child feeding in Nepal

BACKGROUND Despite concerted effort from government and partners, Nepal continues to have a high burden of under nutrition among children. Identifying opportunities to strengthen policy support for infant and young child feeding (IYCF) is a key component to improve child survival, growth and development. This study aims to explore policy support for IYCF and to identify the influential stakehol...

Infant and Young Child Feeding and Chemical Residues

“Given that breastfeeding reduces child mortality and has benefits that extend into adulthood, every effort has been made to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in the context of these studies [...] Human milk though still the best food for infants has been unintentionally compromised by unwelcome chemicals from our environment, as a result of eating, drinking and living in a technologic...