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.
Some 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
Breastfeeding can help reduce 13 percent of the rate mortality of children under five years old, or save about 6 million children from infectious diseases, a health official has said.
UNICEF aims to assure 50 percent of children around the world are breastfed exclusively in their first six months, but Vietnam has only reached 17 percent, an Asia-Pacific UNICEF representative said at a recent conference on nutrition in Hanoi.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) kicked off the “First Embrace” campaign in the National Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital in Hanoi on July 17 to promote immediate skin-to-skin contact between mother and child to save thousands of newborn lives in the country.
Vaccines against pneumonia, diarrhoea and the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer will be added to the national immunisation programme, with support from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunis
The Vietnam National Institute of Nutrition, the Alive and Thrive project and the Hanoi University of Technology launched an online training programme on child care to respond to the World Breastfeeding Week 2017 that runs from August 1-7.
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The article stressed that throughout his revolutionary career, the founder of modern Vietnam consistently regarded the revolutionary press as a vital part of the Vietnamese Party’s and nation’s revolutionary struggle.
Pichai said the trade talks with the US are important and need to move forward professionally, without regard for any political changes in Thailand, believing that Thailand has clear principles, guidelines and procedures in place.
The tax adjustment supports the Malaysian Government’s strategy to reduce reliance on foreign food supply chains and to assist domestic farmers, a finance official has said.
The proposed venue is located in the Chatuchak area of Bangkok, featuring eight public sites, including Krungthep Aphiwat Central Terminal and several nearby parks.
Connectivity is expected to improve further with the completion of the fifth Laos–Thailand Friendship Bridge by the end of 2025, facilitating logistics and agricultural exports to Vietnam, Thailand, and China.
Two naval gunboats intercepted a fishing vessel carrying 1.5 tonnes of methamphetamine hydrochloride off the coast of the main island of Luzon just before dawn, in a joint operation with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.
In the today context of socio-economic development and growth, the professionalism of Vietnam’s revolutionary journalists continues to rise, guided by exemplary mastery of new information technologies and the modernisation of their founding principles to preserve the enduring values of revolutionary journalism.
Thai Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce Vuttikrai Leewiraphan Thailand's formal proposal will be substantial enough for the US to consider further detailed negotiations. He hoped for a tariff rate not exceeding 10% and suggested that the US might extend the negotiation period if an agreement is not reached by the July 8 deadline.
Organised by the Ministry of Culture and the Association of Thai Silk & Culture Promotions, the event honors Her Majesty the Queen on her 47th birthday anniversary and promotes Thai craftsmanship on an international stage.
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This follows Telegram’s serious failure to address the content that has been repeatedly reported to them, despite various efforts of negotiation and cooperation made by MCMC, it said.
Some 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) 
