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Documents on infant feeding/breastfeeding

Key documents

• Infant and young child feeding: Model Chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals
  This document brings together essential knowledge about infant and young child feeding that health professionals should acquire. It focuses on nutritional needs and feeding practices in children less than two years of age.

• Planning guide for national implementation of the Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
  This document translates the aim, objectives and operational targets of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding into concrete, focused national strategy, policy and action plans.

• Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding 2010
  Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence.

2013

• Long-term effects of breastfeeding: a systematic review

2012

• HIV and infant feeding 2010: an updated framework for priority action
  WHO guidelines

2011

• District planning tool for maternal and newborn health strategy implementation
• Guidelines on optimal feeding of low birth-weight infants in low- and middle-income countries

2010

• Facts for life
  Fourth edition
• Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding 2010
  Principles and recommendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part II: measurement
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part III: country profiles
• PMTCT strategic vision 2010–2015
  Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals

2009

• Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast-milk substitutes
• Infant and young child feeding - tools and materials
• Infant and young child feeding: Model Chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals
• WHO child growth standards and the identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children
  A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund

2008

• Complementary feeding counselling
  A training course
• HIV and infant feeding counselling tools
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part I: definition
• Strengthening action to improve feeding of infants and young children 6-23 months of age in nutrition and child health programmes
  Report of proceedings, Geneva, 6-9 October 2008
• The international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes
  Frequently asked questions

2007

• Evidence on the long-term effects of breastfeeding
  Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
• HIV and infant feeding: new evidence and programmatic experience
  Report of a technical consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, Mother and their Infants, Geneva, Switzerland, 25-27 October 2006
• HIV and infant feeding: update
  Based on the Technical Consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Infants, Geneva, Switzerland, 25-27 October 2006
• HIV transmission through breastfeeding
  A review of available evidence
• Joint statement on the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition
• Planning guide for national implementation of the Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• The impact of zinc supplementation on childhood mortality and severe morbidity
  Report of a workshop to review the results of three large studies
• WHO HIV and infant feeding technical consultation - consensus statement
  Held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, mothers and their infants

2004

• Call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in the current Asian emergency, and caution about unnecessary use of milk products
  WHO, UNICEF, ICRC, IFRC statement
• Consultative meeting to review evidence and research priorities in the management of ARI
• Guiding principles for feeding non-breastfed children 6-24 months of age
• HIV and infant feeding counselling: from research to practice
• HIV and infant feeding data analysis
  Workshop report
• HIV and infant feeding generic slide set
• HIV and infant feeding: a guide for health-care managers and supervisors
• HIV and infant feeding: guidelines for decision-makers
• Home-modified animal milk for replacement feeding: is it feasible and safe?
  Discussion paper prepared for HIV and infant feeding technical consultation, 25-27 October 2006
• Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling
  An Integrated Course
• Optimal feeding of low-birth-weight infants
  Technical review
• UNICEF and WHO joint statement on HIV and infant feeding
• Update on dissemination and use of new and revised HIV and infant feeding publications
• What are the options?
  Using formative research to adapt global recommendations on HIV and infant feeding to the local context

2003

• Community-based strategies for breastfeeding promotion and support in developing countries
• Complementary feeding: report of the global consultation, and summary of guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Discussion paper 146: moving forward with complementary feeding
  Indicators and research priorities
• Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
  Geneva, 3-5 February 2003 : Meeting report
• Infant and young child feeding
  A tool for assessing national practices, policies and programmes
• Special supplement of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin based on a WHO expert consultation on complementary feeding

2002

• Breastfeeding and maternal medication
  Recommendations for drugs in the eleventh WHO model list of essential drugs
• Nutrient adequacy of exclusive breastfeeding for the term infant during the first six months of life
• Report of informal technical meeting to review and develop indicators for complementary feeding
  3-5 December 2002, Washington, D.C.

2001

• Breastfeeding and replacement feeding practices in the context of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
  An assessment tool for research
• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review
• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: report of an expert consultation

1990-1999

• Breastfeeding and maternal tuberculosis
• Breastfeeding counselling: a training course
  Director's guide, trainer's guide and participants' guide
• Complementary feeding: family foods for breastfed children
• Evidence for the ten steps to successful breastfeeding
• Hepatitis B and breastfeeding
• HIV and infant feeding counselling: a training course
• Hypoglycaemia of the newborn
  Review of the literature
• Indicators for assessing breastfeeding practices
• Mastitis: causes and management
• Relactation: review of experience and recommendations for practice