Series L, Number 14
Issues in World Health

CONTENTS

Home (Key Points)

Breastfeeding Gains and Goals
Table 1. Breastfeeding Practices Improving
Web Table 1. Early Initiation of Breastfeeding Over Time
Web Table 2. Exclusive Breastfeeding Over Time
Web Table 3. Breastfeeding at Two Years
Table 2. Breastfeeding Common but Not Usually Optimal
Web Figure 1. Most Infants Breastfed Initially
Web Figure 2. Levels of Breastfeeding Vary Widely

Comprehensive Strategies Needed

Spotlight: Madagascar’s Comprehensive Approach Improves Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Increases Women’s Contraceptive Options
Table 3. When Breastfeeding Mothers Can Begin a Family Planning Method After Childbirth Compared with Mothers Not Breastfeeding

Centerspread: Breastfeeding Is Best
Figure 1. Better Breastfeeding Reduces Diarrhea

Women with HIV Face Crucial Breastfeeding Decisions
Figure 2. Estimated Risk of HIV Infection in Infants and Young Children

Bibliography

Credits

• Counseling Aid: When Can a Woman Use LAM?
• Counseling Aid: HIV and Infant Feeding Counseling Flow Chart

• Box: Taking Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
• Table: When Breastfeeding Mothers Can Begin a Family Planning Method

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Counseling Aid: HIV and Infant Feeding Counseling Flow Chart

This flow chart illustrates the counseling process that health care providers can follow to support HIV-positive mothers making decisions about feeding their infants. It is drawn from the HIV and infant feeding flipchart of counseling cards used during one-to-one sessions with pregnant women and mothers, one of four HIV and infant feeding counseling tools developed by UNICEF and WHO.

For more information on these tools and on adapting them for local use, contact the World Health Organization's Department of Child and Adolescent Health Development (CAH) by e-mail: cah@who.int, telephone: +41-22-791-32-81, or postal mail: 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.

Source: WHO 2005 (271)