Transcript Infant Feeding and Climate Change Dr. M.Homayoun Ludin Afghanistan Infant and Young Child Feeding Indicator percenta ge Percentage of babies breastfed with in one hour of birth 36.7 Percentage.

Infant Feeding and Climate
Change
Dr. M.Homayoun Ludin
Afghanistan
Infant and Young Child Feeding
Indicator
percenta
ge
Percentage of babies breastfed with in one hour of birth
36.7
Percentage of babies <6 months of age exclusively breastfed
in the last 24 hours
83.0
Babies are breastfed for a median duration of how many
months?
18
Percentage of breastfed babies receiving complementary
foods at 6-9 months of age
28.4
Status of Formula Feeding practice
Percentage of breastfed babies less than
6 months old receiving other foods or
drink from bottles in the last 24 hours
17
Status of Formula Feeding practice
• .
Status of Formula Feeding practice
• 327,000 children under 5 dying each year.
Malnutrition is a major underlying cause of
child mortality and morbidity in Afghanistan,
• 114,450 (35%) would have survived if they
had been adequately nourished
.
UNICEF. (2006). Afghanistan Statistics.
Status of Formula Feeding practice
• 40% of admissions in therapeutic feeding
units (for the treatment of severe acute
malnutrition) are under 6 months of age,
pointing to breastfeeding problems as a
primary cause. Furthermore, nutritional
survey results show that acute malnutrition
is highest in children 6-29 months of age.
Status of Formula Feeding practice
• Child in a TFU with Acute severe malnutrition
Trends in formula feeding and
commercial complementary feeding
45
40
% of Bottle feeding
40
35
30
25
20
15
17
10
5
0
2003
now
Status of Formula Feeding practice
• Each General store allocated tenth space
of the store to infant formula
Status of Formula Feeding practice
• Mother please don’t kill me
MananaThank you
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