News from Alive & Thrive in East Asia Pacific and beyond. Read about how AI is used to improve health, improving maternity care through mothers’ voices, local leadership in advancing maternal & child health, and monitoring of harmful digital marketing. mailchi.mp/fhi360/alive-a…

NEW PUBLICATION: Application of a locally developed open-access digital monitoring system for the human milk bank network in Vietnam. FHI 360 Alive & Thrive BMC #IntBreastfeedJ Gates Foundation Ireland in Vietnam 🇮🇪 …reastfeedingjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

NEW PUBLICATION: Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and maternity protection: correlations with commercial milk formula consumption in East Asia and the Pacific. FHI 360 Sydney Health Frontiers - Pediatrics frontiersin.org/journals/pedia…

Impact of Code implementation & maternity policy on improving breastfeeding/reducing BMS (CMF) use is crucial - however it has never been statistically proven. We explored the correlations and here are the outcomes: frontiersin.org/journals/pedia…

“As total scores on Code implementation increased, per capita CMF consumption decreased. Most countries with high CMF consumption had no Code legal measures. Philippines, with the highest Code implementation score, showed the lowest per capita CMF consumption.” Alive & Thrive

Application of a locally developed open-access digital monitoring system for the human milk bank network in Vietnam #neoTwitter pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40629436/?utm_…

NEW PUBLICATION: Empowering breastfeeding support: a review of challenges, solutions, and lessons learned from large-scale interventions in Vietnam. jphe.amegroups.org/article/view/1…

New guidance from UNICEF IFE Core Group provides technical and practical advice on why, where, when and how to support wet nursing within health and nutrition programs. knowledge.unicef.org/child-nutritio…

🌍 What we feed babies today shapes the health of tomorrow — for people and the planet. 🗓️ Join us on 7 Aug at 1PM BST for a #WBW2025 webinar on how communities are championing breastfeeding & strengthening support. 👉 Register: ow.ly/B6Wk50Wv66y #breastfeeding #SDGs

Proud to coauthor a highlighted paper and serve as Guest Editor for two collections at Springer Nature. World Breastfeeding Week 2025: Creating Sustainable Support Systems communities.springernature.com/posts/world-br…

Great to see this Springer Nature #WBW2025 blog mentioning our paper “Economic and environmental impacts of commercial milk formula in Indonesia: estimates and comparisons using the Cost of Not Breastfeeding, Green Feeding, and Mothers’ Milk Tools”. communities.springernature.com/posts/world-br…

Join us celebrating World Breastfeeding Week & Month 2025. We’re excited to join global efforts during World Breastfeeding Week and Month #WBW2025 under the theme: “Prioritise Breastfeeding – Create Sustainable Support Systems.” Events: aliveandthrive.org/en/news/alive-…

News from Alive & Thrive in East Asia Pacific and beyond. Global, regional and national #WBW2025 events and activities, new Breastfeeding Model Hospitals in Laos, advancing safety and nutrition in preschools in Vietnam, new publications. mailchi.mp/fhi360/alive-a…

Voices of Mothers: How Health Care Systems Can Support Breastfeeding. When healthcare workers receive breastfeeding training, everything changes for mothers and babies. Global Breastfeeding Collective video with mothers from 15+ countries. #WBW2025 youtu.be/dZV3cDV1ffQ

We’re launching the expanded #GreenFeedingTool later this month to enable calculations of the carbon and water footprints of commercial milk formula production and use during the recommended breastfeeding duration of two years and beyond. greenfeedingtool.org

“I wiped the baby and then put the baby close to the mother’s skin.” Even in a rocking boat mid-river, midwife Sotheavy supported early bonding and first feeding. 🔗 fhi360.org/articles/a-mid… #WBW #WBW2025 #WABA #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2025 #AliveAndThrive #MaternalHealth

🚤 “She was in pain, but smiled and said, ‘Thank you for coming.’” Trained midwives like Sotheavy bring calm and care — even on the water. 🔗 fhi360.org/articles/a-mid… #WBW #WBW2025 #WABA #worldbreastfeedingweek #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2025 #AliveAndThrive

We are just one day away from Code Chat, a podcast and live Q&A event co-organized by Alive & Thrive, UNICEF México, and the SANAR Foundation Argentina. Date & Time: August 27, 2025 @ 10:00 am GMT-3 / 02:00 pm GMT+1 / 08:00 pm GMT+7. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/627e8570…