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- Title
Scaling-up exclusive breastfeeding support programmes: the example of KwaZulu-Natal.
- Authors
Desmond, Chris; Bland, Ruth M; Boyce, Gerard; Coovadia, Hoosen M; Coutsoudis, Anna; Rollins, Nigel; Newell, Marie-Louise
- Abstract
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for six months is the mainstay of global child health and the preferred feeding option for HIV-infected mothers for whom replacement feeding is inappropriate. Promotion of community-level EBF requires effective personnel and management to ensure quality counselling and support for women. We present a costing and cost effectiveness analysis of a successful intervention to promote EBF in high HIV prevalence area in South Africa, and implications for scale-up in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
- Publication
PloS one, 2008, Vol 3, Issue 6, pe2454
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0002454