Stories of putting people at the centre
Accessed: 20.11.2019
The achievable imperative for global progress
UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
ICAAP12 Secretariat
Partners in population and development, Dhaka, Bangladesh June 2016
Resource Kit for Field workers
front cover © Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children
Panam Salud Publica. 2021;45:e22. https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2021.22
Women and children, especially pregnant girls and women, infants and young children and postpartum women, are populations that are extremely vulnerable in emergencies. Breastfeeding provides children with hydration, comfort, connection, high quality nutrition and protection against disease, shieldin...g them from the worst of emergency conditions. This ability has been described as empowering and healing by some breastfeeding women.
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