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WHO DG, Dr Margaret Chan, exposes industry tactics

TDr Margaret Chan, WHO's Director-General at the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion Helsinki, Finland 10 June 2013 made an excellent speech. "Efforts to prevent noncommunicable diseases go against the business interests of...

Infant feeding and obesity

Recent studies have revealed that children predominantly bottle-fed have a higher risk of early childhood obesity, compared to children who are breastfed. Also children who are obese are likely to...

Ronald McDonald and Tony the Tiger submit CVs at WHA

After years of selling burgers, fries and sugary breakfast cereal to children around the globe, Ronald McDonald and Tony the Tiger are in Geneva at the World Health Assembly to...

The World Breastfeeding Conference 2012

The World Breastfeeding Conference took place in New Delhi in December 2012. It brought together more than 800 representatives of civil society, governments, international organisations, breastfeeding groups, social movements and...

The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) initiative

As many of our countries are already very much involved in SUN, IBFAN has produced a discussion paper which explains the concerns we have with this initiative. In view of...

GAIN - fails to enter WHO's police setting process

The failure of GAIN (the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition) to obtain official relation status with the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an NGO, has been warmly welcomed by health...

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Advanced Infant and Young Child Feeding Policy and Practice Course

IBFAN Africa is happy to announce to the network that the next Regional Conference will be held in Kampala, Uganda, late August or Early September 2014. We would like IBFAN Members to put this event in their work plans for 2014 as one of the important activities for 2014. We would also like to request that members include this in their bilaterally funded activities to ensure that Development partners include the activity in their budgets as you discuss with them.

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