Purpose:
To develop, coordinate and
identify effective strategies to increase the percentage of mothers
whom:
We recognize the World Health
Organization's recommendation on breastfeeding duration as an ideal.
Resolution World Health Assembly 54.2 (ref. Agenda Item 13.1, Infant
and young child nutrition, A54/45) in paragraph 2(4) urges Member States
to:
"Support exclusive breastfeeding
for six months as a global public health recommendation taking into
account the findings of the WHO Expert Consultation on optimal duration
of exclusive breastfeeding, and to provide safe and appropriate complementary
foods, with continued breastfeeding for up to two years or beyond..."
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