Health

As countries face increasingly complex health challenges, Community Engagement has become a powerful global public health tool to support behavioral change. In north-east Nigeria’s Borno state, the Ministry of Health, WHO and partners currently leverage CE to prevent attacks on health care and protect the delivery of essential health services.Since 2009, the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) in north-east Nigeria have been facing one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world. An estimated 5.6 million people1 are in need of health interventions in BAY states, where...

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Optimal breastfeeding is so critical that it could save the lives of over 820 000 children under the age of 5 years each year. WHO and UNICEF recommend:However, many infants and children do not receive optimal feeding. For example, only about 44% of infants aged 0–6 months worldwide were exclusively breastfed over the period of 2015-2020.Recommendations have been refined to also address the needs for infants born to HIV-infected mothers. Antiretroviral drugs now allow these children to exclusively breastfeed until they are 6 months old and continue breastfeeding until at...