Global & Disaster Medicine

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week

August 2nd, 2019

USAID

“……The benefits of breastfeeding don’t just extend to babies; studies found it can even protect women from breast and ovarian cancer later in life, reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and contribute to healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies. In fact, scaling up breastfeeding could prevent over 800,000 child deaths and 20,000 deaths among women each year...…”

This entry was posted on Friday, August 2nd, 2019 at 11:19 pm and is filed under Kids-Infants, Women issues .
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