Violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes: a multi-country analysis.

ABSTRACT: The marketing of formula milk as a substitute for breast milk continues to be ubiquitous and multifaceted despite passage by the World Health Assembly of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) in 1981. In this paper, we summarized reports of the Code violations from eight studies using the WHO/UNICEF NetCode protocol. Among 3,124 pregnant women and mothers with young children, in eight countries, 64% reported exposure to promotion of products covered under the Code in the previous 6 months, primarily from advertisements seen outside of health facilities (62%). Nearly 20% of mothers with an infant < 6 months reported that a health care provider had advised them to feed their child food or drink other than breast milk, and 21% of providers reported contact

SUBMITTER: Lutter CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9749209 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature