Protecting breastfeeding in the Philippines The Philippines government has introduced strengthened regulations for the marketing of baby foods, after reports that baby food companies were offering financial incentives for health workers if families were converted to use breastmilk substitutes. The new regulations are the culmination of years of campaigning by the International Baby Food Action […]
Category: International Midwifery
‘The world needs midwivesnow more than ever’International Day of the Midwife 2006: midwives and others around the world celebrated the International Day on May 5 In Afghanistan On May 1,250 members of the Afghan Midwives Association (AMA) assembled in Kabul to celebrate their first anniversary. The second annual congress of the Afghan Midwives Association was […]
Launching the partnership for maternal, newborn and child health: after a number of recent changes in the global agencies working for mothers’ and babies’ wellbeing, ICM’s role is at the heart of a new and powerful partnership Since the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were agreed in 2000 to include the two targets of major reduction […]