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BPNI works to protect promote, and
support breastfeeding in India with the broad goal of
empowering all women to breastfeed their infants exclusively
for first 6 months of life and to continue breastfeeding
along with appropriate complementary foods up to two
years of age or beyond.
BPNI
is a national network of individuals and organisations
working for protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding
in India. BPNI believes that breastfeeding is the right
of all mothers and children. BPNI works through advocacy,
social mobilization, information sharing, education
and training of health workers and monitoring the compliance
of International Code/The Indian Law to protect breastfeeding.
BPNI works as the Regional Focal Point for South Asia
for the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
& International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN).
Funding
Policy
"BPNI
does not accept funds or sponsorship of any kind from
the companies producing breastmilk substitutes, related
equipments and complementary foods or those have been
ever found to violate the IMS Act or International Code."
BPNI
respects the following national and international documents:
The Infant
Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation
of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 (The
IMS Act).
Section
9 (a)
"No
person who produces, supplies, distributes or sells
infant milk substitutes or feeding bottles or infant
foods shall offer or give, directly or indirectly, any
financial inducements or gifts to a health worker or
to any member of his family for the purpose for promoting
the use of such substitutes or bottles or foods."
International
Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (and subsequent
WHA resolutions on infant feeding)
Affirming
the right of every child and every pregnant and lactating
woman to be adequately nourished…and conscious
that breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing
ideal food for the healthy growth and development of
infants.
…{breastmilk
substitutes} should not be marketed or distributed in
ways that may interfere with the protection and promotion
of breastfeeding…
Adopted
by World Health Assembly 21 May 1981
WHA Resoulution
49.15 (1996)
…concerned that health institutions and ministeries
may be subject to subtle pressure to accept, inappropriately,
financial or other support for professional training
in infant and child health;… URGES member states
to take the following measures:
(2) to
ensure that the financial support for professionals
working in infant and young child health does not create
conflicts of interest, especially with regard to the
WHO/UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative;…
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