Happy new year?

I have a bit of a break from blogging over Christmas and New Year, but I thought I would make a post to wish everyone a happy new year and r...

Study day on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies

We work with the Emergency Nutrition Network to help ensure that responses to natural disasters and other emergency situations are appropria...

Infants surviving on breastmilk in China earthquake

Just a quick mention here today of a link someone sent me with a couple of breastfeeding stories from the China earthquake. The heartbreakin...

Don't send formula to Burma or China

Disaster relief agencies have made it clear that they do not welcome donations of infant formula when responding to emergencies such as the ...

Formula donations causing diarrhoea in emergency situations

The press release below, from the UNICEF East Asia website, reminds us of the need for care in providing help to mothers and infants in emer...

Protecting babies in emergencies: The role of the public

Our partners in the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) in Switzerland have been working on this guide with the Emergency Nutriti...

Emergencies in Iraq and Peru

We have received reports of free formula being distributed in Iraq and have raised this with the UK authorities and partners. News just in i...

Advice on infant feeding during the UK floods

Thousands of people have been affected by flooding in the UK. In one county 340,000 people have lost their water supply. More rain is expect...

A little knowledge can be dangerous

A rather sad and tragic story today. A Yale student working in a poor community in Rwanda found a mother infected with HIV breastfeeding her...

Bob Geldof on HIV at the G8

The G8 meeting of the world's richest Western nations, plus Russia, broke up today. After the promises of action on climate change and i...

Infant feeding in emergencies in the news

Two articles today deal with the difficult subject of infant feeding in emergencies. One, in The Guardian, picks up on the paper’s recent in...