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MEDIA ALERT: Celebrating International Child Rights Day, 20 November 2008, (15.00-18.00) - Mercure Forsan Island Hotel, Ismaïlia, Egypt 11 November 2008 – Geneva. The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) is pleased to invite you to join representatives of UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the Egyptian authorities in celebrating International Child Rights Day at a media event on 20 November. Full text
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Letter to Pediatrics not accepted *
This letter to "Pediatrics", the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, was unfortunately not accepted for publication in the journal. We are posting it on our website to make points and concerns expressed by the undersigned known to a wider readership.
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Risks of formula feeding The whole world recoiled in horror at the recent Sanlu milk scandal in China: over 6,000 babies ill, including more than 150 in critical condition, and four deaths. News that melamine, a toxic chemical was deliberately added to local brands of baby milk to falsify protein levels have compelled Chinese parents to seek imported brands. But are these brands any safer? See our record of recalls 2000-2006 and 2007-2008. And now the foreign companies are riding high on the anxiety of Chinese mothers... Read the ICDC Press statement - 20 Sept 2008 NEW! ICDC News Flash
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Formula milk dangerous for humanitarian aid UNICEF has renewed calls for donors to refrain from
sending formula milk as humanitarian assistance to victims of disasters, saying
it could cause even more deaths.
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IBFAN-LAC Position Statement on food security and complementary feeding. Click here
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Did you know that donations of baby milks in disasters and emergencies can do more harm than good? Find out more in relation to Myanmar... Also get a joint WHO/UNICEF statement on appropriate infant and young child feeding in the current Myanmar emergency, and caution about unnecessary use of milk products. Click here
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Breastfeeding counseling may save millions of lives in India, says The Lancet.
New evidence Calls upon the Government of India to Scale Breastfeeding and Complementary Counselling to a Coverage of 99%. Read more..
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| Welcome to IBFAN |
Important Notice: IBFAN works to provide information to product users so that they can make informed decisions in infant feeding, and to inform parents and caregivers about potential risks in artificial feeding. IBFAN does not provide individual advice and counselling about methods of artificial feeding, nor do we ever recommend products. Parents should ensure that they take advice from health care providers who are independent of the baby food industry.
NEW!!! Code Essentials 1: The Annotated International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and relevant WHA resolutions.
ICDC is proud to announce the launch of a 32-page up-to-date and comprehensive annotated compilation of the International Code and subsequent WHA resolutions. This publication will provide breastfeeding advocates with the essential tools about the regulation of marketing of baby foods (including formula), feeding bottles and teats. |  |
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| Regional Sites |
IBFAN is arranged into eight operative regions with Regional Co-ordination Offices (RCO) and (in some cases) with IBFAN regional websites:
To support these eight regional coordinating offices, the International Code Documentation Centre (ICDC) located in Penang, Malaysia, is the global reference office on the Code and related matters for the entire IBFAN network. | 
| The Geneva Infant Feeding Association (GIFA) serves as IBFAN's international liaison office, acting as the interface between the IBFAN network and the UN agencies based in Geneva. GIFA also provides technical support to the IBFAN thematic working groups and administers and manages IBFAN's global projects and fundraising efforts. | 
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| About us |
IBFAN - the International Baby Food Action Network - consists of public interest groups working around the world to reduce infant and young child morbidity and mortality. IBFAN aims to improve the health and well being of babies and young children, their mothers and their families through the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal infant feeding practices. In 1998 IBFAN received the Right Livelihood Award. The RLA Jury has honoured IBFAN “for its committed and effective campaigning over nearly twenty years for the rights of mothers to choose to breastfeed their babies, in the full knowledge of the health benefits of breastmilk, and free from the commercial pressure and misinformation with which companies promote breastmilk substitutes.” |
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| Information to consumers |
Do you know that powdered baby milks or formulas, even in sealed and unopened packets, are not sterile products? •
• In general, parents and caregivers know that they need to boil tap water and sterilise feeding bottles and teats when preparing baby milk to feed babies and young children. But few parents and caregivers know that powdered baby milks, even in unopened tins or packets, may contain harmful bacteria such as Salmonella and Enterobacter species. These pathogenic bacteria thrive in warm milk, multiply rapidly and can result in serious illness such as meningitis, necrotising enterocolitis, septicemia and even death. This risk is greatest in areas of the world with hot climates, lacking refrigeration and adequate fuel to prepare the product safely. •
IBFAN campaigns to protect the health and safety of all babies, whether they are breastfed or artificially fed. All babies and young children are vulnerable to disease caused by harmful bacteria: at birth, a baby´s immune system is immature and still developing, and breastfeeding confers both active and passive immunity to protect against infection. Artificially fed babies are thus more vulnerable, because artificial feeding provides none of the antibodies and anti-infective agents that are provided by breastmilk. Read more...
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