Image: card from Tanzania, Nyumba ya Sanaa

Breastfeeding should only be promoted where priority is also being placed on protecting it and supporting the breastfeeding mother.

I began publishing articles in around 1980 presenting a new idea on how programs should focus not just on promotion, but rather first on the protection and support of breastfeeding. This version was published years later.

Click here to download a scanned pdf file from the Cornell monograph where it was published.