#WorldBreastfeedingWeek: Making Breastfeeding Work for Nigerian Mothers
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By Onyedikachi Ewe and Bernard Otu Assim-ita (Lead Writers) Breastfeeding is an important part of a baby’s growth, especially during the first…
The Best Start in Life: Getting Exclusive Breastfeeding Right
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By Kenneth Ibe and Hadiza Mohammed (Lead Writers) Nutrition is a vital component of infant and young child development, and a major…
Protect Breastfeeding: Strengthening Workplace Policies for Exclusive Breastfeeding in Nigeria
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Breastfeeding provides essential nutrients to newborns and infants, which translate to proper growth and development from childhood to adulthood. There are many…
The Breast Milk Substitute Code - Time for Implementation and Enforcement in Nigeria
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Breast will always be bestThe importance of breastfeeding to improve the health and nutrition of infants and young children cannot be overemphasised….
Between experts and experience: Compassionate advocacy and support for exclusive breastfeeding
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These are some of the reasons Nigerian mothers give for why they are unable to exclusively breastfeed their babies in the first…
Healthy Pikin, Smart Adult: Breastfeeding as an investment in Nigeria’s future
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In Nigeria, exclusive breastfeeding is still not widely adopted. According to the 2016-2017 National Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) Report, only 23.7%…
Displaced but Determined in Borno; Exclusive Breastfeeding in the midst of a humanitarian crisis
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The Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp in Maiduguri is home to over 30,000 people. It is one of several IDP camps…
From Zero to Six: Can breastfeeding our babies accelerate Nigeria’s development? #WBWNG2018
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Every first week of August Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week. Yet, if statistics are anything to go…