I was privileged to spearhead this adjournment debate on the Lancet report yesterday.

The recently published Lancet papers tackle the structural reasons for which breastfeeding does or does not happen and I was proud to raise the importance of it in the House.

Please join us for the Australasia & Pacific launch of The Lancet 2023 Series on Breastfeeding on Tuesday 14th February.
Click here to register: eventbrite.com.au/e/2023-lancet-…

New 3-paper 2023 LANCET BREASTFEEDING SERIES is now live!! 🔥 Includes our paper 'The political economy of infant & young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers & accelerating progress'.
Please see thread below & RT👇
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Underhand marketing tactics + political lobbying helped the formula milk industry generate US$55 billion in sales in 2020.

A new The Lancet Series calls for breastfeeding to be supported, promoted, and protected: hubs.li/Q01zjg1J0
#endexploitativemarketing

Hot off the press! 'The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress. A new 3-paper Lancet Series #breastfeeding #endexploitativemarketing #auspol
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Join us on 9 Feb! The Lancet 2023 Series on Breastfeeding explores how BF is undervalued & underinvested in, while the vulnerabilities of women & families are exploited by the commercial milk formula industry. @asean Alive & Thrive @unicef Register here: unicef.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

NEW COMMENTARY: Babies before business: protecting the integrity of health professionals from institutional conflict of interest. BMJ Global Health #COI #WBW2022 gh.bmj.com/content/7/8/e0…

Just in time for #WBW2022 ! Please read and share our new Commentary in BMJ Global Health on conflicts of interest between the commercial milk formula industry and health professionals. Read: gh.bmj.com/content/7/8/e0… Roger Mathisen @cashin_jennifer Constance Ching 程詠樂 Dr. Tuan Nguyen

Last month, ASEAN minimum standards for protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and complementary feeding were launched in a side event during the ASEAN Health Ministers’ Meeting. Alive & Thrive presented on behalf of civil society partners. 🗞mailchi.mp/fhi360/at-sea-…

Upcoming seminar-yet MORE benefits of 🤱:
- Role of #Breastfeeding in #AntimicrobialResistance

Do join/share Natalie Hickman Dr Natalie Shenker MAMI Global Network IFE Core Group Emergency Nutrition Network MSFPaediatrics Helen Gray Alice Allan International Baby Food Action Network Roger Mathisen

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#Breastfeeding & #MothersMilk are currently not counted in national #FoodSystems making its economic value invisible. The new #MothersMilk Tool will change this by quantifying breastmilk and the monetary value of #breastfeeding for individual countries: tinyurl.com/Mothers-Milk-T…

🚨 ¡Nuevo artículo académico! 🚨

📚 «Countries' experiences scaling up national breastfeeding, protection, promotion and support programmes: Comparative case studies analysis»

🗣️ Sonia Hernández-Cordero (Sonia Hernández Cordero)
🗣️ Rafael Pérez Escamilla
🗣️ et al.

🔗onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mc…

Ok I need this. grapee.jp/en/199026?fbcl…

Important new paper!! 🔥 Finds violations of International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes continue, and have extended into digital, brand extension & product labelling strategies. Highly relevant to World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Assembly 2022 #EndExploitativeMarketing #WHA22

Step 1: Understand the magnitude of the problem. We did a systematic scoping review of published evidence of Code violations since the 1980s.
This is what we found: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mc…
Alive & Thrive Constance Ching 程詠樂 @cashin_jennifer Roger Mathisen Rafael Perez-Escamilla