World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year across the globe and the week is celebrated from 1 to 7 August 2023. World breastfeeding week is a global campaign that aims to raise awareness about breastfeeding and its benefits
World Breastfeeding Week 2023: Theme
This year’s theme will focus on breastfeeding and work, providing a strategic opportunity to advocate for essential maternity rights that support breastfeeding – maternity leave for a minimum of 18 weeks, ideally more than 6 months, and workplace accommodations after this point.
World Breastfeeding Week: History
As per World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, World Breastfeeding Week was started in 1992. The week is celebrated in commemoration of the 1990 Innocenti Declaration.
The Innocenti Declaration was produced and adopted by participants at the WHO/UNICEF policymakers’ meeting on “Breastfeeding in the 1990s: A Global Initiative”, co-sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) and the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA), held at the Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy, on 30 July- 1 August 1990.
World Breastfeeding Week: Significance
With a different theme each year, World Breastfeeding Week aims to promote the enabling environments that help women to breastfeed – including support in the community and the workplace, with adequate protections in government policies and laws – as well as sharing information on breastfeeding benefits and strategies, according to the global health body.
According to WHO, more than half a billion working women are not given essential maternity protections in national laws.
Just 20% of countries require employers to provide employees with paid breaks and facilities for breastfeeding or expressing milk.
Fewer than half of infants under 6 months of age are exclusively breastfed.
For Adminison in Nursing Cick here
