India scores high on breastfeeding code: WHO

Countries substantially aligned with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes study exclusive breastfeeding rates of 54%, compared with 24% successful countries with nary ineligible measures.

This was stated successful the latest study enactment retired connected the juncture of World Breastfeeding Protection Day connected May 21, assessing the grade to which the codification has been implemented by assorted countries.India was among the countries categorised arsenic "Substantially aligned with the Code" and its past wellness survey (2019-21) showed that astir 64% children nether six months were exclusively breastfed, a important betterment from 55% successful 2015-16.

The study was prepared by WHO's section of nutrition and nutrient information (NFS), successful collaboration with WHO's section of maternal, newborn, kid and teen wellness and ageing.Bangladesh, followed intimately by India, scored the highest successful South Asia successful implementing the code. China did precise poorly and its exclusive breastfeeding complaint is conscionable astir 29%. India got a afloat people connected regulating promotion to the wide nationalist and wrong wellness facilities and precocious people connected monitoring and labelling but scored precise poorly connected producing accusation worldly to beforehand breastfeeding and prohibiting industry-produced material.

Most European countries and the Americas did precise poorly connected codification implementation.The study noted that betwixt 2024 and aboriginal 2026, 19 countries enacted caller ineligible measures to instrumentality the Code, with 15 showing improved alignment."Thirty-seven countries person authorities substantially aligned with the code, protecting 45% of the world's newborns from unethical marketing. This is an summation from lone 25 countries successful 2020.

A full of 148 countries - 76% of WHO subordinate states - person enacted laws covering astatine slightest immoderate provisions. Alignment is highest successful the WHO African, Eastern Mediterranean, and South-East Asia region," stated the report.Globally, rates of exclusive breastfeeding successful the archetypal six months of beingness person accrued by 10 percent points implicit the past decennary and had reached 48%, according to the Global Breastfeeding Scorecard for 2025. This was a small abbreviated of the World Health Assembly people of 50%. WHO and UNICEF person acceptable a caller people to summation the complaint of exclusive breastfeeding for infants nether six months to astatine slightest 60% by 2030.