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- Subject: VENEZUELA: BREAST-FEEDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
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- ** Topic: IPS:Venezuela: Breast-Feeding **
- ** Written 1:46 pm Aug 8, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.samerica **
- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: IPS:Venezuela: Breast-Feeding
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- Title: VENEZUELA: BREAST-FEEDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
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- caracas, aug 5 (ips) -- in recognition of the first international
- week in celebration of breast feeding, venezuela's government has
- launched a nation-wide campaign to promote the practice.
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- the programme, with support from the united nations children's
- fund (unicef) and the panamerican health organisation (pho),
- hopes to improve the living conditions and potential of both
- mothers and children.
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- alberto fuenmayor, unicef's representative in venezuela, told
- ips that the programme seeks to follow the proposals in the
- united nations declaration of children's rights and will involve
- all sectors of society concerned with mother-child relations.
-
- in venezuela, and throughout the third world, diarrhoea and
- respiratory diseases are responsible for a high percentage of
- infant deaths.
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- according to fuenmayor, substitutes for mother's milk, often
- prepared with local water supplies, are the cause of death in
- over 50 percent of these cases.
-
- every day, between three and four thousand children die from
- diarrhoea or respiratory infections due to poor health and
- nutritional conditions.
-
- unicef and paho representatives emphasised the fact that
- breast feeding is not just a matter of survival, but a means of
- improving the lives of both mother and child.
-
- mother's milk not only provides a baby with all the necessary
- nutritional elements, but also reduces the risk of death from
- respiratory diseases by 72.3 percent and the incidence of death
- by diarrhoea by 25 percent.
-
- breast-feeding also offers 98 percent protection against
- pregnancy during the first six months and reduces the risk of
- ovarian and breast cancers by 95 percent.
-
- according to unicef official egla abrahams, the venezuelan
- plan focuses on the education of both mothers and health workers
- on the importance and practice of breast-feeding.
-
- the venezuelan plan includes the creation of a national
- committee for the promotion of breast-feeding and the formation
- of community and hospital groups that support and educate women
- in both the pre- and post-natal periods.
-
- it will also take advantage of unicef's ''pro-breast-feeding
- hospitals'' programme, which gives grants to hospitals and health
- centres that promote breast-feeding. (more/ips)
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- venezuela: government (2)
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- these hospitals and health centres must adopt measures that
- include the elimination of natural milk substitutes, the training
- of health workers and the same-room housing of mother and
- newborn.
-
- the unicef programme is already in place in bolivia, brazil,
- mexico and nine african and asian nations.
- (end/ips/trd/so/caf-sfi/kb/92).
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