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Friday, 2 August 2024 | Issue 266
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A mother breastfeeds her child in the nutrition stabilization center at Mehoni Primary Hospital, Ethiopia.
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Thursday, 1-7 August
World Breastfeeding Week
Celebrated every year in the first week of August, this year’s World Breastfeeding Week theme is Closing the gap: Breastfeeding support for all. The campaign will aim to share relatable experiences from women about breastfeeding and showcase how families, societies, communities and health workers can have the back of every breastfeeding mum.
Breastfeeding support includes:
Policies and attitudes that value women and breastfeedingA women and breastfeeding-friendly health care systemSolidarity and community support so that women can breastfeed anytime, anywhere
Also see: [https://www.who.int/health-topics/breastfeeding] and [https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-breastfeeding-week/2024]
Wednesday, 6 August Strength in numbers – how monitoring breastfeeding policies and programmes creates accountability and empowers change [https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2024/08/06/default-calendar/strength-in-numbers-how-monitoring-breastfeeding-policies-and-programmes-creates-accountability-and-empowers-change]
As part of the World Breastfeeding Week campaign, a webinar on 6th August will focus on the importance of data to support breastfeeding.
Data helps countries assess breastfeeding practices, and builds accountability for ensuring critical support is in place for breastfeeding mothers.
Despite progress, currently fewer than half of infants born today are breastfed exclusively and many women do not breastfeed for as long as they would like. Investment in supportive policies and programmes – including access to trained health workers, paid maternity leave, family-friendly employment policies, and regulation of marketing of breastmilk substitutes – is critical to close these gaps.
Register to attend the webinar live or stream the recording here [https://www.globalbreastfeedingcollective.org/strength-numbers].
Existing country data is available here [https://www.globalbreastfeedingcollective.org/global-breastfeeding-scorecard].
2024 campaign page [https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-breastfeeding-week/2024].
Friday, 9 August
New Lancet Series: Maternal health in the perinatal period and beyond, Asia-Pacific Region [https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2024/08/09/default-calendar/new-lancet-series-maternal-health-in-the-perinatal-period-and-beyond-asia-pacific]
Join this webinar for the Asia-Pacific launch of a new Lancet four-part Series on Maternal health in the Perinatal Period and Beyond. Experts will present findings related to: how maternal health is intricately linked to human adaptations to the planet; how cultural, political, and economic structures influence the social determinants that shape women’s vulnerabilities during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period and beyond; the long-term consequences of labour and childbirth that are left out of global maternal health agenda; intersectional approach to address global maternal health inequities; and how to apply this new knowledge to address the reported stagnation in global maternal mortality ratio, and achieve other relevant SDG targets.
More information and registration here [https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2024/08/09/default-calendar/new-lancet-series-maternal-health-in-the-perinatal-period-and-beyond-asia-pacific].
Selection of stories on WHO’s work in emergencies
Extreme heat claims more than 175 000 lives annually in the WHO European Region, with numbers set to soar [https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/01-08-2024-statement—extreme-heat-claims-more-than-175-000-lives-annually-in-the-who-european-region–with-numbers-set-to-soar]
SURGE initiative: Burkina Faso prepares experts to respond to health emergencies within 24 to 48 hours. (In French) [https://www.afro.who.int/fr/countries/burkina-faso/news/initiative-surge-le-burkina-faso-prepare-des-experts-repondre-aux-urgences-sanitaires-dans-les-24-48?country=21&name=Burkina%20Faso]
WHO launches urgent AWD response project in Yemen amid escalating outbreak [https://www.emro.who.int/yemen/news/who-launches-urgent-awd-response-project-in-yemen-amid-escalating-outbreak.html]
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