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Mali ratifies Convention 183 ILO
We are pleased to announce that on 5 June 2008 Mali
ratified the ILO Convention on Maternity Protection, No 183, 2000. It is the
14th state, and the first in Africa, to have done so. Other countries that have
ratified are: Albania (24.07.04), Austria (30.04.04), Belarus (10.02.04),
Belize (09.11.05), Bulgaria (06.12.01), Cuba (01.06.04), Cyprus (12.01.05), Hungary
(04.11.03), Italy (07.02.01), Lithuania (23.09.03), Moldova (28.08.06), Romania
(23.10.02), Slovakia (12.12.00). All of these countries provide paid maternity
leave for at least 14 weeks. Read more...
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IBFAN India resists GAIN: children’s health before corporate profits A joint action group constituted by 33 persons including individual experts, pediatricians, public health experts, representatives from 19 national organisations working in public interest in health, development, gender, education and nutrition sector made strong voice and protest to GAIN for sparing India from the hands of multinational consumer and food companies to which GAIN is a promising market builder. Media brief
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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!!!! A 150-page report on practices by baby food companies which violate the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. Lots of pictures of violations in full colour. |  |
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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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