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ARCH partnership with Nepal’s Ministry of Health provides lactation management training to nurses in Kathmandu Valley hospitals

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The Global Breastfeeding Collective published a compendium of case studies that provide current, real-world examples of how countries, programs, and initiatives have successfully improved access to skilled breastfeeding counselling. Each case study addresses one of the Collective’s calls to action and provides practical guidance and lessons learned to help others replicate their success. Since 2013,…

World Breastfeeding Week 2021: Protecting Breastfeeding in Cambodia

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As part of the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Alliance (SUN CSA) Cambodia, Helen Keller International/ARCH, along with Alive & Thrive and World Vision International Cambodia, was pleased to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week under the theme ‘Protecting breastfeeding: A shared responsibility’ during the month of August. The COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized the need to…

Health workers in Cambodia enforce Sub-Decree 133

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Aggressive marketing of infant formula in health facilities discourages breastfeeding. The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) prohibits any type of promotion of breast-milk substitutes (BMS) in health facilities. The Code calls on health workers to protect parents from predatory BMS industry marketing practices and has specific provisions for health workers on…

Low prevalence of double and triple burdens of malnutrition in Kathmandu Valley households must not leave us complacent

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My ARCH colleagues’ latest findings in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal reveals some good news that the prevalence of mother-child dyads suffering from coexisting multiple burdens of malnutrition is still relatively low. A little over 8 percent in their study sample were an overweight mother with an undernourished child (“double burden”), and only about 3 percent were…