Decline in Breastfeeding Linked to Child Deaths in Asia: UNICEF
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Omi said governments should address the problem by ensuring their health systems promoted breastfeeding. He also called for legislation to ban "the inappropriate promotion of breast milk substitutes," especially those which say these products can increase the health and intelligence of children.
In the region, he noted only the Philippines and Palau had laws explicitly barring the promotion of infant formula as breast milk substitutes for babies below the age of one.