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97% of Burundian women breastfeed, Ministry of Health reveals

08-03-2018 The director of the National Integrated Food and Nutrition Program at the ministry of health says the maternal breastfeeding situation in Burundi is satisfactory. He calls on mothers to breastfeed their children as long as possible. On the occasion of the week dedicated to maternal breastfeeding, Alain Parfait Bimenyimana, (...)
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Breast milk: why it is irreplaceable

12-14-2013 In Bujumbura, the price of artificial milk for infants is going through the roof, leaving mothers with very few alternatives. But why artificial milk when you can breastfeed? -By Joanna Nganda Elsie, a mother of two, chose exclusive breastfeeding and as she says it herself “it’s the cheapest and (...)