(Kyodo) - Cambodia on Tuesday joined a worldwide alliance of countries observing World Breastfeeding Week in a bid to reduce the high child mortality rate in the country.
Cambodia becomes the 125th of the world's 192 countries taking action to implement the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes established in 1981 by the World Health Organization.
The code places restrictions on the marketing of breast milk substitutes, such as infant formula, to ensure that mothers are not discouraged from breastfeeding and that substitutes are used safely if needed.
A joint statement released Tuesday by Cambodia's Health Ministry, the U.N. Children's Fund, the WHO, and USAID said one in 12 children in Cambodia dies before the age of five and one in three dies within their first year.
"Interventions to promote exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices are the two most effective preventive interventions available to prevent child mortality," the statement said.
Prak Sophoan Neary, project coordinator for the National Nutrition Program, told Kyodo News that breastfeeding helps reduce the child death rate by up to 27 percent from general diseases, diarrhea and pneumonia.
"Breastfeeding also helps reduce the risk of vulnerable diseases from 8 percent to 20 percent in newborns up to 5 months old," she added.
The Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey of 2005 showed that 96 percent of children under 6 months old are breastfed. Nearly 50 percent of children are breastfed for two years and 20 percent are breastfed for over 3 years.
Cambodia becomes the 125th of the world's 192 countries taking action to implement the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes established in 1981 by the World Health Organization.
The code places restrictions on the marketing of breast milk substitutes, such as infant formula, to ensure that mothers are not discouraged from breastfeeding and that substitutes are used safely if needed.
A joint statement released Tuesday by Cambodia's Health Ministry, the U.N. Children's Fund, the WHO, and USAID said one in 12 children in Cambodia dies before the age of five and one in three dies within their first year.
"Interventions to promote exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices are the two most effective preventive interventions available to prevent child mortality," the statement said.
Prak Sophoan Neary, project coordinator for the National Nutrition Program, told Kyodo News that breastfeeding helps reduce the child death rate by up to 27 percent from general diseases, diarrhea and pneumonia.
"Breastfeeding also helps reduce the risk of vulnerable diseases from 8 percent to 20 percent in newborns up to 5 months old," she added.
The Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey of 2005 showed that 96 percent of children under 6 months old are breastfed. Nearly 50 percent of children are breastfed for two years and 20 percent are breastfed for over 3 years.
2 comments:
Give me a fucken brake! Cambodian can afford to buy infant formula? I mean most poor average Cambodian work for less than $1 dollar aday and how can they afford to buy infant formula unless it is a fake infant formula! You see economically it doesn't make sense because the cost is beyond the reach of most poor Cambodian!
I will tell AH HUN SEN that most Cambodian people had been breast fed since the Khmer Rouge and up to now!
Now consider that more than 50% of medicines sold in Cambodia are fake! So what make you think that infant formula is not fake! The fake infant formula had been sold in China until the Chinese government discovered and it was too late for those poor innocence babies!
Hey! It can happen in China and certainly it can happen in Cambodia! I don't need AH HUN SEN to tell Cambodian people what to do!
Most CPP members'wives have to travel to Thailand for Sex with Thai men because their husband were too busy with all young girls. They have paid a lot of monies for a secret sex.
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