World Breastfeeding Week is held in the first week of August every year. The theme for 2024 is Closing the gap: Breastfeeding support for all. The campaign will celebrate breastfeeding mothers in all their diversity, throughout their breastfeeding journeys, while showcasing the ways families, societies, communities and health workers can have the back of every breastfeeding mother.
Breastfeeding can act as an equalizer in our society and efforts must be made to ensure everyone has access to breastfeeding support and opportunities. It is essential that no-one is left behind, especially vulnerable mothers who may need additional support to reduce breastfeeding inequalities. Target audiences including actors along the Warm Chain of Breastfeeding support; civil society organizations, governments, policymakers, health systems, workplaces, communities and parents will be engaged to close the gap in breastfeeding inequalities and support breastfeeding for all especially the vulnerable groups.
This support includes:
- Policies and attitudes that value women and breastfeeding
- A women and breastfeeding-friendly health care system
- Respect for women’s autonomy and her right to breastfeed anytime, anywhere
- Solidarity and community support
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Join us on Wednesday, 31 July 2024, at 2:00 p.m. (Washington DC, or EDT) to celebrate the start of World Breastfeeding Week with the webinar Closing the Gap: Breastfeeding Support for All. Breastfeeding support comes in many forms and takes place at many levels, starting in the community, where breastfeeding mothers and infants should be welcomed in local establishments, to a woman- and breastfeeding-friendly health care system. On the highest level, support also includes maternity protections from governments, to help protect the health and rights of women and babies.
Join us to celebrate breastfeeding mothers in all their diversity throughout their breastfeeding journeys and showcase the ways families, societies, communities, and health workers can support every breastfeeding mother.
