Constance Ching 程詠樂 UNICEF South Asia Dr. Tuan Nguyen Vani Sethi Kathy Shats Congratulations!

Constance Ching 程詠樂 UNICEF South Asia Dr. Tuan Nguyen Vani Sethi Kathy Shats Congrats to all the authors! This wide-ranging research & recommendations is a really important contribution. Your work to document gaps & incorporate recommendations regarding donations in emergency settings is especially valuable, thank you! cc IFSfRC IFE Core Group #iycfe

Close to 900,000 newborns die in South Asia each year. Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child survival and development but unethical and marketing of formula milk and related products is a main barrier. How does law matter? frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

When we say that the needs are endless at hospitals in the Gaza Strip, this is what we mean 👇 When fuel runs out, so will hope for thousands of patients. World Health Organization (WHO) reiterates its call for safe passage for the delivery of fuel and health supplies throughout the Gaza Strip. 🔊SOUND

World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO in occupied Palestinian territory UNRWA UNICEF MENA - يونيسف الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا United Nations UN News WHO Egypt UN Relief Chief “We lack drinking water, food, and fuel for electricity. Which means we lack everything that humans need to survive.” Fuel is not just a convenience, it’s a lifeline.

Babies before bottom lines: A call for Australia to end exploitative marketing of commercial milk formula at home and abroad. thelancet.com/journals/lanwp…

Nestlé also violates the Code and the argentine law 🇦🇷 advertising NAN 3 and Nido 3 #EndExploitativeMarketing #CodeProtectsBreastfeeding #BreastfeedingProtectsLife&Health Corporate Accountability Tool & Communications Hub Constance Ching 程詠樂 Alive & Thrive Dr. Magdalena Whoolery Julie P Smith Global Breastfeeding Patti Rundall

At the 7th South-East Asia Subregional SDG Forum held at United Nations ESCAP Bangkok, Alive & Thrive, together with @unicef and World Food Programme, discusses using AI technology (VIVID) to help monitor harmful food marketing, including promotion practices that contribute to malnutrition.

This study aimed to review the content and implementation of maternity protection policies in the #Philippines and assess their role in enabling recommended breastfeeding practices. It also identified bottlenecks to successful implementation. …reastfeedingjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Important article highlighted in Kathy Shats presentation by colleagues Constance Ching 程詠樂 Paul Zambrano Dr. Tuan Nguyen Roger Mathisen Available here: mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/5…

INNOVATIONS @ #COP28UAE: Boosting breastfeeding to mitigate climate change: A new tool illustrates the massive carbon and water footprints of commercial milk formula. aliveandthrive.org/en/news/boosti…

Artificial feeding in emergencies should only be a last resort.Better options include expressing breastmilk, restarting breastfeeding, breastfeeding by a healthy woman other than the mother & donor human milk. It's even more critical in contexts with a lack of clean water. #IYCFE

Those thinking of donating eSIMs to Gaza thru @connectinghumanity_ @mirna_elhelbawi - ones I bought fr @holafly_esim hv been activated. Someone in Gaza is using it. W/ comms blackout- it’s sorely needed 4 journalists, me/aid workers, civilians. Check out gazaesims.com

‘Australia is a “bad policy actor” both at home & abroad. It joined US efforts to stop Thailand from strengthening its milk formula marketing & #breastfeeding protection law [&] former fed Govt announced … $160k to “develop market strategies” in SE Asia… internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutl…

VIVID Viet Nam as an example of using AI innovations to help monitoring & enforcement in "#WHO Restricting digital marketing in the context of tobacco, alcohol, food and beverages, and breast-milk substitutes" iris.who.int/bitstream/hand…

This #WHO document examines how restrictions on digital marketing are implemented by governments, describes challenges and provides policy options and approaches that governments can adopt, including using AI (VIVID) to monitor and help enforcement: iris.who.int/bitstream/hand…

Digital marketing is the new easy frontier for formula companies. In around six months the #VirtualViolationsDetector found almost 3800 entries of breaches to the #WHOCode in Australia. corporateaccountabilitytool.org/vividreport Alive & Thrive Corporate Accountability Tool & Communications Hub Constance Ching 程詠樂

Patti Rundall Phillip Baker Jane Badham Rafael Perez-Escamilla Dr. Simón Barquera Dr Arun Gupta MD (Pediatrics-1976) FIAP Victor Aguayo Constance Ching 程詠樂 Roger Mathisen Julie P Smith Kyra Berasi

VIVID utilizes deep-learning algorithms to detect online Code violations -its human supervised machine learning ensures human participation in monitoring Kathryn Backholer Phillip Baker Roger Mathisen Duong Nguyen Dieu Linh Constance Ching 程詠樂 Alive & Thrive doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13…

Together with UNICEF ARGENTINA & national CSOs Fundeps Argentina Fundacion SANAR, Alive & Thrive FHI Nutrition is developing a Code Monitoring Digital Platform, with AI Virtual Violations Detector/VIVID to integrate findings with enforcement action tracker. Read: shorturl.at/VuUNO