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#WorldBreastfeedingWeek: Making Breastfeeding Work for Nigerian Mothers

By Nigeria Health Watch
August 3, 2023
4 Mins read
By Onyedikachi Ewe and Bernard Otu Assim-ita (Lead Writers) Breastfeeding is an important part of a baby’s growth, especially during the first…
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The Best Start in Life: Getting Exclusive Breastfeeding Right

By Nigeria Health Watch
September 7, 2022
4 Mins read
By Kenneth Ibe and Hadiza Mohammed (Lead Writers) Nutrition is a vital component of infant and young child development, and a major…
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Thought Leadership

Protect Breastfeeding: Strengthening Workplace Policies for Exclusive Breastfeeding in Nigeria

By Kemisola Agbaoye
August 11, 2021
4 Mins read
Breastfeeding provides essential nutrients to newborns and infants, which translate to proper growth and development from childhood to adulthood. There are many…
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Thought Leadership

Breastfeeding Fact Sheet

By Nigeria Health Watch
August 4, 2021
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Thought Leadership

The Breast Milk Substitute Code - Time for Implementation and Enforcement in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch
October 24, 2019
5 Mins read
Breast will always be bestThe importance of breastfeeding to improve the health and nutrition of infants and young children cannot be overemphasised….
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Torchlight

Between experts and experience: Compassionate advocacy and support for exclusive breastfeeding

By Dara Ajala-Damisa
August 5, 2019
7 Mins read
These are some of the reasons Nigerian mothers give for why they are unable to exclusively breastfeed their babies in the first…
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HealthThought Leadership

Healthy Pikin, Smart Adult: Breastfeeding as an investment in Nigeria’s future

By Nigeria Health Watch
December 7, 2018
5 Mins read
In Nigeria, exclusive breastfeeding is still not widely adopted. According to the 2016-2017 National Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) Report, only 23.7%…
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Torchlight

Displaced but Determined in Borno; Exclusive Breastfeeding in the midst of a humanitarian crisis

By Bashar Abubakar
September 4, 2018
7 Mins read
The Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp in Maiduguri is home to over 30,000 people. It is one of several IDP camps…
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Thought Leadership

From Zero to Six: Can breastfeeding our babies accelerate Nigeria’s development? #WBWNG2018

By Nigeria Health Watch
August 8, 2018
5 Mins read
Every first week of August Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week. Yet, if statistics are anything to go…
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