World Breastfeeding Week 2008 - Unite for children: support mothers.Summary: Despite exclusive breastfeeding being the most complete form of nutrition for infants, figures are not progressing in the Middle-East and North Africa. Exclusive breastfeeding has a wide array of long-term benefits for a childCOs health, growth, immunity and cognitive development. Yet, insufficient knowledge of the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding from 0-6 months remains a widespread cause for stagnation Stagnation A period of little or no growth in the economy. Economic growth of less than 2-3% is considered stagnation. Sometimes used to describe low trading volume or inactive trading in securities. Notes: A good example of stagnation was the U.S. economy in the 1970s. in the region, where the practice reaches only 28 per cent of newborns. Despite exclusive breastfeeding being the most complete form of nutrition for infants, figures are not progressing in the Middle-East and North Africa. Exclusive breastfeeding has a wide array of long-term benefits for a childCOs health, growth, immunity and cognitive development. Yet, insufficient knowledge of the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding from 0-6 months remains a widespread cause for stagnation in the region, where the practice reaches only 28 per cent of newborns. Even though countries in the region have seen gradual improvement in the promotion and duration of the practice, the rate of progress in the past decade is below Eastern and Southern Africa
This year, under the theme "Mother Support: Going for the Gold" (partly in the spirit of the Olympics in August), the World Breastfeeding Week calls for greater support to mothers in achieving the gold standard of infant feeding: breastfeeding exclusively for six months, and providing appropriate complementary foods with continued breastfeeding for up to two years or beyond. Considered a basic child survival intervention, exclusive breastfeeding also holds the key to reducing underweight Underweight An situation where a portfolio does not hold a sufficient amount of securities to satisfy the accepted benchmark of the portfolio's asset allocation strategy. Notes: and stunting of children under-five, which remains prevalent and disquieting dis·qui·et tr.v. dis·qui·et·ed, dis·qui·et·ing, dis·qui·ets To deprive of peace or rest; trouble. n. Absence of peace or rest; anxiety. adj. Archaic Uneasy; restless. in proportions in high priority countries such as Yemen, Sudan and Djibouti. Stunting, an absolute indicator of chronic malnutrition, affects more than half of all under-five children in Yemen where exclusive breastfeeding is also one of the regionsCO lowest, at 12 per cent. A myriad of contrasts in a highly diverse regionWhile countries like Tunisia, Egypt and Iran have retained the highest scores in exclusive breastfeeding in the region for several consecutive years, coverage is still below 50%, leaving no room for complacency and underscoring the urgency of enhanced promotion of the practice among pregnant and lactating lac·tate 1 intr.v. lac·tat·ed, lac·tat·ing, lac·tates To secrete or produce milk. [Latin lact mothers, as well as within policy design, involving health practitioners, development partners and communities.A glance at exclusive breastfeeding practices in the Gulf countries reveals very slow progress, on the one hand, but more critically, it exposes the absence of reliable, recently developed data. While exclusive breastfeeding in the Gulf remains noticeably low on the basis of available figures, results are indicative of a steady percentage of mothers choosing to initiate complementary feeding as early as the first month. Similar patterns are seen in industrialized in·dus·tri·al·ize v. in·dus·tri·al·ized, in·dus·tri·al·iz·ing, in·dus·tri·al·iz·es v.tr. 1. To develop industry in (a country or society, for example). 2. countries, where exclusive breastfeeding is eclipsed by the growing diversity of artificial breastmilk substitutes in the markets. In drought-prone countries like Djibouti, Yemen and Sudan, the Sudan, The officially Republic of the Sudan Country, northeastern Africa. Area: 966,757 sq mi (2,503,890 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 36,233,000. Capitals: Khartoum (executive), Omdurman (legislative). need for exclusive breastfeeding is all the more important because of the fragile nutritional status nutritional status, n the assessment of the state of nourishment of a patient or subject. of newborns and mothers, which is seriously jeopardized by growing food insecurity as a result of the global rise in food prices and limited access to basic services basic services, n.pl frequently insurance companies split dental procedures into basic and major categories. Basic services usually consist of diagnostic, preventive, and routine restorative dental services. and humanitarian aid Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity. . Breastfeeding: the human rights angle C[pounds sterling]Support mothersC[yen], the theme of World Breastfeeding Week 2008, calls for enhanced community-based breastfeeding support systems and the development of national frameworks linking knowledge, as well as existing capacities and resources to protect and support breastfeeding at all levels. C[pounds sterling]Exclusive breastfeeding contributes to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals “MDG” redirects here. For other uses, see MDG (disambiguation). The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 192 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. 1 and 4, in particular. Governments, health-care providers, communities and families all have an important role to playC[yen], said Sigrid Kaag, UNICEF UNICEF (y  `nĭsĕf'), the United Nations Children's Fund, an affiliated agency of the United Nations. Regional Director
for the Middle East and North Africa.
Partnership building in support of mothers in the region has gradually taken the form of C[pounds sterling]baby-friendlyC[yen] hospitals by means of an open dialogue between health practitioners, mothers and communities. The mainstreaming of child-feeding interventions as part of national health and development initiatives is also fundamental. Today, about 90% of pre-natal health facilities in Tunisia, Oman and Iran are C[pounds sterling]baby-friendlyC[yen]. A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] 2008 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)
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