Next week is World Breastfeeding Week

World Breastfeeding Week is held in the first week of August supported by World Health Organization, UNICEF and many Ministries of Health and civil society partners.

The theme of this year’s week is “Let’s make breastfeeding and work, work! ”

• More than half a billion working women are not given essential maternity protections in national laws
• Just 20% of countries require employers to provide employees with paid breaks and facilities for breastfeeding or expressing milk
• Fewer than half of infants under 6 months of age are exclusively breastfed.