1. Infant Feeding and Climate Change Dr. M.Homayoun Ludin Afghanistan

2. Infant and Young Child Feeding Indicator percenta ge Percentage of babies breastfed with in one hour of birth 36.7 Percentage of babies <6 months of age exclusively breastfed in the last 24 hours 83.0 Babies are breastfed for a median duration of how many months? 18 Percentage of breastfed babies receiving complementary foods at 6-9 months of age 28.4

3. Status of Formula Feeding practice Percentage of breastfed babies less than 6 months old receiving other foods or drink from bottles in the last 24 hours 17

4. Status of Formula Feeding practice.

5. 327,000 children under 5 dying each year. Malnutrition is a major underlying cause of child mortality and morbidity in Afghanistan, 114,450 (35%) would have survived if they had been adequately nourished. UNICEF. (2006). Afghanistan Statistics.

6. Status of Formula Feeding practice 40% of admissions in therapeutic feeding units (for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition) are under 6 months of age, pointing to breastfeeding problems as a primary cause. Furthermore, nutritional survey results show that acute malnutrition is highest in children 6-29 months of age.

7. Status of Formula Feeding practice Child in a TFU with Acute severe malnutrition

8. Trends in formula feeding and commercial complementary feeding

9. Status of Formula Feeding practice Each General store allocated tenth space of the store to infant formula

10. Status of Formula Feeding practice Mother please don’t kill me

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