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Philippines responds to world breastfeeding week

Some 2,000 mothers in the Philippines breastfed their babies in public at a gathering on August 5 to respond to World Breastfeeding Week, raising awareness of breast milk’s benefits for infants.
Philippines responds to world breastfeeding week ảnh 1Some 2,000 mothers in the Philippines breastfed their babies in public at a gathering on August 5 to respond to World Breastfeeding Week (Photo: AFP)

Hanoi (VNA) – Some 2,000 mothers in the Philippines breastfed theirbabies in public at a gathering on August 5 to respond to World BreastfeedingWeek, dispelling taboos over the practice and raising awareness of breastmilk’s benefits for infants.

The annual event, the fifth of its kind in the country, aimed to encouragePhilippine mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies for the first sixmonths to lower the country’s infant mortality rate.

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said 28 out of every 1,000 children in thePhilippines die under the age of five. Although the figure has been cut in halfcompared to 1990, the country aims to lower infant mortality rates to 19 per1,000.

World Breastfeeding Week is taking place from August 1-7, themed “SustainableBreastfeeding together”. Research shows that breastfeeding improves mothers andbabies’ health and promotes economic development.

Only about 40 percent of infants aged 0-6 months worldwide are exclusivelybreastfed, according to reports from UNICEF and the World Health Organisation.Only 23 countries worldwide have exclusive breastfeeding rates above 60percent.-VNA

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