World Breastfeeding Week
World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated every year from 1 to 7 of August, is a global campaign coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) to raise awareness and galvanize action on themes related to breastfeeding. PAHO joins the global community to support the efforts to strengthen measures to protect, promote, and support the right to breastfeeding across the Region of the Americas.
Find below a series of articles and documents disseminated on regards of this campaign along the years.
Documents and Articles
During World Breastfeeding Week, PAHO warns that increasingly sophisticated digital marketing of breast-milk substitutes is influencing infant feeding decisions and calls for stronger regulation and monitoring of online advertising.Washington, D.C., 31 July 2026 (PAHO) – Ahead of World Breastfeeding Week (1-7 August), the Pan American Health…
August 2025When Resa Eustace, a registered nurse and certified midwife from St. Vincent and the Grenadines welcomed her first child, she chose to breastfeed and thought that it would be simple. But the first days of feeding her newborn became some of the most challenging moments of her life.“I thought that breastfeeding was just taking my breast,…
Washington, D.C., 6 August 2025 (PAHO/WHO)– As World Breastfeeding Week unfolds under the theme “Prioritize breastfeeding: Create sustainable support systems,” the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF are calling on governments and health systems worldwide to invest in breastfeeding support to improve infant health and development. In…
World Breastfeeding Week is held in the first week of August every year. The theme for 2024 is Closing the gap: Breastfeeding support for all. The campaign will celebrate breastfeeding mothers in all their diversity, throughout their breastfeeding journeys, while showcasing the ways families, societies, communities and health workers can have the…
Suriname, August 2, 2023 (PAHO) – The official opening of World Breastfeeding Week, with theme “Let’s make breastfeeding and work, work!” was hosted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and UNICEF at Diakonessenhuis Hospital in Suriname on August 2, 2023. This significant event aimed to raise awareness about the importance of…
