World Breastfeeding Week
World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated every year from 1 to 7 of August, is a global campaign coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) to raise awareness and galvanize action on themes related to breastfeeding. PAHO joins the global community to support the efforts to strengthen measures to protect, promote, and support the right to breastfeeding across the Region of the Americas.
Campaign: World Breastfeeding Week
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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…
Suriname, August 2, 2023 (PAHO) – The official opening of World Breastfeeding Week, with theme “Let’s make breastfeeding and work, work!” was hosted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and UNICEF at Diakonessenhuis Hospital in Suriname on August 2, 2023. This significant event aimed to raise awareness about the importance of…
