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Headlines promised £500 savings on baby formula, but the UK government’s plan offers far less than struggling families hoped.
Without support from the community, workplace, government and society as a whole, even doctors have trouble breastfeeding – a challenge commercial infant formula companies take advantage of.
The infant formula market in Australia and New Zealand is valued at about AU$500 million annually. But far less money goes towards supporting mothers to breastfeed.
Obesity among children is a growing problem in Africa.
Low-income mothers with infants are struggling with food insecurity, which can lead to long-term health impacts for both mothers and children.
Many families in the US encountered empty shelves when they went in search of infant formula during COVID-19.
Biden said the Defense Production Act would help end the shortage by directing suppliers of baby formula to prioritize delivery to formula manufacturers.
The closure of a factory in Michigan is the incident that put new parents across the US on edge, but the real causes for the shortage of baby formula are many years in the making.
An infant nutrition expert explains what is behind the current formula shortage and what can be done to support hard-pressed parents.
Using ‘cellular agriculture’, scientists want to produce genuine human breastmilk as an alternative to infant formula.
With the high cost of infant formula, food-insecure mothers who cannot breastfeed are struggling to feed their babies.
Around the globe, 823,000 child deaths could be prevented annually with appropriate breastfeeding. Formula makers continue to defy a 40-year-old international code on marketing their product.
Until now, researchers haven’t quite known why the immune systems of breastfed babies are better equipped.
Researchers don’t fully understand the composition of breast milk and its benefits. Beyond nutrition, it contains enzymes, hormones and the mother’s antibodies — including antibodies for COVID-19.
Industry marketing can shape beliefs about formula feeding.
New research shows a six-fold increase in sales of infant formula prescribed for babies with cows’ milk protein allergy in the UK, despite no evidence of an increase in the incidence of the allergy.
American support of the formula industry comes at the cost of the health and lives of Black and brown babies, at home and abroad.
As US mothers returned to breastfeeding, the market for infant formula dried up, leading formula makers to seek new markets in developing nations. Here’s how that led to a recent outcry.
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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ARC Future Fellow and Sydney Horizon Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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PhD Graduate Researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Global Public Health, International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), United Nations University
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Second Century Chair Professor of Law, Author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice, Southwestern Law School
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Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
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Professor of Business, University of Michigan
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Tier II Canada Research Chair in Food, Health, and Social Justice, Acadia University
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Consultant Neonatologist, University of Birmingham
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Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education; Professor, Clinical Sciences, Florida State University