When it comes to breastfeeding, ‘timing is everything’ in saving newborn lives – UNICEF chief
Извор: Организација на Обединетите нации - 01.08.2018
UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi
A newborn sleeps in his mother's arms, in a health centre in Accra, Ghana
Three-in-five babies, mostly born in low- and middle-income countries, are not breastfed within the first hour of life, placing them at higher risk of death and disease, according to a new United Nations report launched on Tuesday.
“When it comes to the start of breastfeeding, timing is everything,” said Henrietta Fore, the UN Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) Executive Director, on the eve of World Breastfeeding Week.