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The Benefits of Breastfeeding: Healthy Moms, Babies – and Economies
A new series on breastfeeding in The Lancet journal highlights breastfeeding’s significant health and economic benefits. Breastfeeding is an important component in USAID’s maternal and child health and nutrition efforts. Photo credit: Amy Fowler/USAID.
The Benefits of Breastfeeding: Low Investment, High Impact
Increased rates of breastfeeding could save more than 820,000 lives, 87 percent of them infants, in low- and middle-income countries. Exclusively-breastfed infants have only one-eighth the risk of death as non-breastfed infants.Photo credit: Amy Fowler/USAID.
The Benefits of Breastfeeding: 1,000 Days: The Critical Window
USAID’s Gimbuka project in Rwanda works to reduce stunting in children under 5. Exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months of life greatly improves infants’ and children’s nutritional health. Photo credit: Amy Fowler/USAID.
The Benefits of Breastfeeding: Immediate and Exclusive Breastfeeding
Immediate breastfeeding after birth, as well as exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months, is identified in USAID’s Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy as a high-impact intervention for reducing malnutrition among young children. Photo credit: Amy Fowler/USAID.
The Benefits of Breastfeeding: Happy Babies, Healthy Moms
Breastfeeding is also important for maternal health, reducing the risks for both breast and ovarian cancers. Nearly 20,000 maternal deaths from breast cancer are averted annually through breastfeeding. Photo credit: Jane Silcock/USAID.
The Benefits of Breastfeeding: A Smart Investment
The global cognitive losses from not breastfeeding amount to $302 billion each year. Working with community leaders, mothers-in-law, and husbands – like this new father in Haiti – can help create supportive environments. Photo credit: Kendra Helmer/USAID.
The Benefits of Breastfeeding: USAID’s Accelerator Behaviors
Through behavior change and communication interventions, USAID promotes healthy behaviors for pregnant women and mothers, including breastfeeding, which is among 10 high-impact Accelerator Behaviors identified by USAID. Photo credit: Amy Fowler/USAID.
The Benefits of Breastfeeding: It Takes a Village
Bishnu Buda, a female community health volunteer in Jumla, Nepal, uses a simple visual aid to counsel mothers in essential newborn care practices – including early, exclusive breastfeeding. Change begins at the community level. Photo credit: USAID Nepal.
The Benefits of Breastfeeding: An Integrated Approach
By making data-driven decisions and implementing evidence-based interventions, USAID is working to reach 38 million women worldwide with improved health services by 2020. Breastfeeding is an important part of our efforts.Photo credit: Amy Fowler/USAID.
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