Fantastic energy today around scaling up the power of social protection to end hunger and malnutrition! Thanks for your leadership ⁦Anne Beathe Tvinnereim⁩ 🇳🇴 and Daiho Fuji 🇯🇵. Looking to work w/ all partners to make progress.

⁦⁩ ⁦Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office⁩ ⁦Gates Foundation⁩ 1/2

Oh dear. I fed my babies with my breasts and I do dare to say the word.

This pulls no punches. ‘The reckoning over puberty blockers has arrived thehill.com/opinion/health…

Shame on you Nestle
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This article on the importance of using sexed language in the context of breastfeeding will be open access for only a couple months. Even if you don't have time to read it now, download it now!
'Losing Women, Losing Breastfeeding: A Crisis of Words'
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Strong primary health care systems are key to achieving universal health coverage.

Learn how countries like Thailand and Ethiopia have achieved #UHC by strengthening #PHC and investing in health care workers. #Exemplars bit.ly/3xty2Gl

“Feeding an infant fully for six months with commercial formula milk instead of breastfeeding is estimated to generate between 226 & 288kg of CO2”

We explore human milk as a triple win for health, environmental, & economic goals. Read more: buff.ly/4aOq8FO

Are you planning a study to collect dietary data? Join us for a webinar on April 24 at 8am Eastern Time to learn how to use the INDDEX24 mobile app to reduce the time & cost associated with quantitative dietary data collection & processing. Register here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

So proud of UNICEF and so mad at so many...
The children of Gaza need a cease fire NOW!

We presented estimates of the monetary value of #breastfeeding work over the past century for Norway & Australia at the 2022 conference of International Association for Research on Income and Wealth in Norway Nancy Folbre International Association for Feminist Economics. Also at IARIW2012 #unpaidwork Roger Mathisen

Perhaps but as @Lancet Series on Breastfeeding highlights, it’s about power not evidence. Unfetter power of the baby milk industry to market allows it to accumulate vast 💰 - enough to fund a $6 billion annual budget for marketing & advocacy. Calls for evidence a stalling tactic?