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#FamilyFocus: World Breastfeeding Week - Breastfeeding Dialogue hosted by SA Breastmilk Reserve

───   10:56 Wed, 05 Aug 2020

#FamilyFocus: World Breastfeeding Week - Breastfeeding Dialogue hosted by SA Breastmilk Reserve | News Article

You are invited to be part of a Breastfeeding Dialogue being hosted online on the 6th of August by the South African Breastmilk Reserve.


Women in general, face a very hostile social environment in South Africa, even more so now during the covid-19 pandemic. Almost one in two households in South Africa is a female-headed household and approximately 9 million children live in fatherless homes. This puts an added burden on women and most often mothers to economically provide for essentials like food, transport and healthcare. Not breastfeeding implies a reliance on other infant feeding foods, most often commercial and expensive. This inadvertently leads to inappropriate infant feeding with the introduction of other foods before the age of six months. The World Health Organization and the National Department of Health recommends and promotes exclusive breastfeeding for all infants for the first six months of life. In the era of life-long anti-retroviral treatment for HIV, all women can now safely breastfeed their infants. Infants under six months, do not need anything else but breastmilk.


On the 6th of August you can join an online dialogue hosted by the South African Breastmilk Reserve.


Find more details here: https://www.sabr.org.za/Breastfeeding-Dialogue-Programme.html

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