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World Breastfeeding Week 2018
August 3 , 2018
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- World Breastfeeding Week 2018 is celebrated every year, from August 01 – 07, to promote awareness regarding the importance of Breastfeeding.
- According to the UNICEF and WHO Report on Breastfeeding, an estimated 7.8 crore newborns are not breastfed within the first hour of life globally – mostly from Low and middle income countries, including India.
- Breastfeeding initiation within an hour after birth,
- India - Increased from 23.4% in 2005 to 41.5% in 2015.
- Global – Increased from 37% to 42 % in 2015
- It is highest in Eastern and Southern Africa (65 per cent) and lowest in East Asia and the Pacific (32 per cent)
- It says that the newborns who began breastfeeding between two and 23 hours after birth had a 33 % greater risk of death compared with those who began breastfeeding within one hour of birth.
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