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Breastfeeding Sites

The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is a worldwide organization of physicians dedicated to the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding and human lactation. Its mission is to unite into one association members of the various medical specialties with this common purpose.

Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative is a worldwide project of UNICEF and the World Health Organization. The goal of the initiative is to recognize hospitals and birth centers that take special steps to provide an optimal environment for breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding.com
This site gives breastfeeding information, support, humor, news, supplies, advocacy, stories, attitude and more.

CDC Breastfeeding Page
This section of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website provides information on breastfeeding promotion and support, government activities, national policies, and more.

International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN)
IBFAN is a partnership of more than 150 groups in at least 90 countries. IBFAN aims to improve the health and well-being of babies and young children, their mothers and their families through the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal infant feeding practices.

International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA)
The International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) promotes the professional development, advancement, and recognition of lactation consultants worldwide for the benefit of breastfeeding women, infants and children.

La Leche League International (LLLI)
LLLI is a U.S.-based, international, non-profit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother. LLLI's Center for Breastfeeding Information (http://www.lalecheleague.org/cbi/cbi.html) is a database of bibliographic information on over 15,000 breastfeeding-related professional articles available to anyone with Internet access.

Ted Greiner's Breastfeeding Website
"Let's make the world a place where breastfeeding works better for mothers and babies! Industrialized and developing countries can learn from each other on this issue.” This site contains articles and papers on breastfeeding, maternal health and nutrition, and breastfeeding, as well as a breastfeeding art gallery and links to other breastfeeding sites.

Wellstart International
Wellstart International's mission is to promote optimal maternal and infant nutrition and health through clinical services and professional education about breastfeeding and lactation management.

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
WABA is a global network of organizations and individuals who believe breastfeeding is the right of all children and mothers and who dedicate themselves to protect, promote and support this right. WABA acts on the Innocenti Declaration and works in liaison with UNICEF.

WHO International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
The aim of the Code is to contribute to the provision of safe and adequate nutrition for infants by protecting and promoting breastfeeding and by ensuring the proper use of breast-milk substitutes, when necessary, on the basis of adequate information and through appropriate marketing and distribution.

Child Survival Sites

Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS)

BASICS works with partners throughout the developing world to achieve the greatest possible impact on child health and nutrition and to provide technical leadership that advances state-of-the-art child survival policies and programming.

The Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group (The CORE Group)
The CORE Group is a network of more than 35 non-profit organizations working together to promote and improve primary health care programs for women and children and the communities in which they live. Collectively, its member organizations have presence in more than 140 countries. All members have participated in USAID's Child Survival Grants Program.

Child Survival Technical Support + (CSTS+)
The technical support CSTS+ provides technical support to private voluntary organizations specifically towards increasing their capacity to achieve sustainable service delivery in public health interventions.

Family Planning and Reproductive Health Sites

EngenderHealth
EngenderHealth is a nonprofit organization that has been working worldwide for more than 30 years to improve the lives of individuals by making reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable.

Family Health International (FHI)
Family Health International (FHI) works to improve reproductive and family health in the U.S. and in more than 40 developing countries through biomedical and social science research, innovative health service delivery interventions, training and information programs.

IntraHealth International
IntraHealth International is dedicated to improving the quality and accessibility of family planning and reproductive health care services throughout the world. The project focuses on strengthening the performance of primary care providers as they work to promote quality family planning services, prevent unplanned pregnancies, promote safe motherhood, increase the availability of postabortion care, and combat HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections in their communities.

Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO)
RHO provides summaries of up-to-date information, links to the best in-depth reproductive health information on the web, and the chance to communicate with international experts and peers through our Community Forum message boards.

Food and Nutrition Sites

Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI)
CHNRI is a network of interested partners supported by the Global Forum for Health Research in Geneva, Switzerland. CHNRI efforts support the Millennium Development Goals and is helping to set research priorities in child health, development and nutrition, and resolve related methodological issues. It also sponsors research into priority child health and nutrition problems, especially in low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on research to inform policies for scaling up effective interventions

Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project
FANta supports integrated food security and nutrition programming to improve the health and well-being of women and children.

Freedom From Hunger Technical Resource Site
This site is distinctly different from Freedom from Hunger's mainstream site because it meets the needs of practitioners, researchers and other professionals who want to learn more about the organization's methodology and research. It focuses on lessons learned from more than a decade's experience implementing, expanding, and evaluating its own integrated service, Credit with Education.

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The mandate of IFPRI is to identify and analyze alternative national and international strategies and policies for meeting world food needs in ways that conserve the natural resource base, with particular emphasis on low-income countries, and on the poorer groups in those countries.

PROFILES
PROFILES is an in-country process for nutrition advocacy developed by the Academy for Educational Development (AED) to quantify the consequences of malnutrition, demonstrate the huge economic and human benefits of nutrition improvement, and to display these results graphically. PROFILES builds consensus to make nutrition a priority, promotes more comprehensive strategies, and better targets existing resources.

Sharing U.S. Technology to Aid in the Improvement of Nutrition (SUSTAIN)
SUSTAIN is a volunteer organization whose goal is to improve the lives of the world's 800 million chronically malnourished people. The project addresses a wide range of food products so that a developing nation's diet is better, safer, more nutritious and more affordable, including the diet of at-risk women and children.

Sub-Committee on Nutrition (SCN)
The UNS/SCN is the focal point for harmonizing the policies and activities in nutrition of the United Nations system. The role of the SCN is to serve as a coordinating mechanism, for exchange of information and technical guidance, and to act dynamically to help the UN respond to nutritional problems.

WHO: Department of Nutrition for Health and Development
Nutrition and nurturing during the first three years are both crucial for lifelong health and well-being. In infancy, no gift is more precious than breastfeeding; yet barely one in three infants is exclusively breastfed during the first four months of life. This site includes access to WHO's Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding as well as other pertinent publications, documents, and data.

UNICEF - Nutrition
UNICEF has worked from its founding to help see that every child’s right to adequate nutrition is fulfilled. It helps children grow and thrive as individuals. Proper nutrition helps give every child the best start in life. UNICEF addressed this need through support for breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding, micronutrients, and food security and emergency response.

The World Bank
The World Bank supports a multisectoral approach to nutrition that targets the poor, especially young children and their mothers. To reach these groups, the Bank emphasizes community-and school-based nutrition programs, food fortification programs, and food policy reforms.

Health and Population Sites

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Global Health Program
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Program is focused on reducing global health inequities by accelerating the development, deployment and sustainability of health interventions that will save lives and dramatically reduce the disease burden in developing countries.

T MEASURE Program
Funded in 1997 by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), MEASURE includes five projects, dedicated to providing accurate and timely information on population, health, and nutrition in developing countries. The projects offer technical services in data collection, analysis, dissemination, and use.

he MOST Project

MOST, which ended September 2005, assisted the U.S. Agency for International Development's Center for Population, Health, and Nutrition, USAID missions, governments, donor agencies, nongovernmental organizations, private voluntary organizations, research entities, and the private sector to implement expanded, more effective programs and policies to prevent and control micronutrient deficiencies, especially vitamin A deficiency.

Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
The Population Reference Bureau is the leader in providing timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications. PRB informs policymakers, educators, the media, and concerned citizens working in the public interest around the world through a broad range of activities, including publications, information services, seminars and workshops, and technical support.

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
PATH's mission is to improve health, especially the health of women and children. An emphasis is placed on improving the quality of reproductive health services and on preventing and reducing the impact of widespread communicable diseases. PATH identifies, develops, and applies appropriate and innovative solutions to public health problems. This is accomplished by exchanging knowledge, skills, and technologies with governmental and nongovernmental partners in developing countries and with groups in need elsewhere.

HIV/AIDS Sites

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation creates a future of hope for children and families worldwide by eradicating pediatric AIDS, providing care and treatment to people with HIV/AIDS, and accelerating the discovery of new treatments for other serious and life-threatening pediatric illnesses.

UNAIDS Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
As the main advocate for global action on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS leads, strengthens, and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing the transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.

Women, Children, and HIV
This site communicates the latest developments in the field, reports relevant findings from conferences and meetings, and provides access to new curricula, guidelines, community education tools, and policy documents to organizations on the frontline of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It is a collaboration between the FranÐois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center and the Center for HIV Information at UCSF (CHI).

Information Dissemination and Communication Sites

The Communication Initiative
The goals of the Communication Initiative are to advance the extent and quality of communication and change information; improve strategic communication thinking on development issues; expand dialogue, debate, and review of key communication issues and programmes; and effectively advocate the importance of communication for sustainable development.

USAID's Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC)
DEC collects USAID-funded publications for dissemination to the international development community.

The Johns Hopkins/Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP)
The JHU/CCP is a pioneer in the field of strategic, research-based communication for behavior change and health promotion that has helped transform the theory and practice of public health.

The Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC)
The Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC) at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs is an international resource for health professionals who seek samples of materials that promote reproductive health.

South Asian Public Health Forum
SAPHF was established in 1999 to improve communication among public health professionals who have an interest in South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Maldives). Over the years its membership has increased to several hundred professionals worldwide. The SAPHF Discussion Forum has become one of the most active email lists on public health in South Asia. With a collection of more than two thousand postings on public health news, articles and letters on South Asia, it is a key resource for anyone interested in health and South Asia.

Maternal and Neonatal Health

ACCESS
The ACCESS Program is USAID’s global program to improve maternal and newborn health. ACCESS works to expand coverage, access and use of key maternal and newborn health services across a continuum of care from the household to the hospital-with the aim of making quality health services accessible for women and newborns.

MotherCare
MotherCare ended in September 2000, but publications and links are still available from their website. MotherCare was dedicated to safe pregnancy, delivery, and appropriate care of complications and nutritional status.

Partnership for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health
In January 2004, an expanded Partnership for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health was established with the aim of promoting the health of women and newborns, especially the most vulnerable, in the context of equity, poverty reduction, and human rights.

Research Sites

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
ICRW's mission is to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women's equality and human rights, and contribute to the broader economic and social well-being. ICRW accomplishes this, in partnership with others, through research, capacity building, and advocacy on issues affecting women's economic, health, and social status in low- and middle-income countries.

Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA)
SARA is USAID-funded and fosters the use of state-of-the-art information in child survival, nutrition, reproductive health and population, HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, and basic education. SARA carries out research, analysis, dissemination, and advocacy activities in collaboration with regional African institutions and networks