World Breastfeeding Week 2024 Theme – Closing the Gap
World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated annually from August 1-7 to promote the importance of breastfeeding for child health and survival.
The week is supported by WHO, UNICEF, and many Ministries of Health and civil society partners.
Breastfeeding provides numerous benefits for both babies and mothers.
It is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival, yet fewer than half of infants under 6 months are exclusively breastfed. Increasing breastfeeding to near-universal levels could save more than 700,000 lives every year, mostly children under six months.
The overarching goal of World Breastfeeding Week is to highlight the huge benefits that breastfeeding can bring to the health and welfare of babies, focusing on good nutrition, poverty reduction, and food security. It also promotes, protects, and supports the rights of women to breastfeed anywhere and at any time.
The theme for World Breastfeeding Week 2023 is “Let’s make breastfeeding and work, work!” which aims to highlight the need for more enabling environments that support breastfeeding, including adequate maternity protections in national laws and policies.
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