An overly critical approach to infant formula will not improve South Africa’s breastfeeding rates if mother are not helped in systemic ways

A senior North West official has been suspended for his alleged role in the procurement and failure to distribute baby milk formula.

A department spends millions on buying goods, but fails to distribute it and then pays extra to dump it after realising it’s past its sell-by date.

Breast or bottle is one of the most intimate and essential decisions a new parent has to make.

UKZN researchers argue that government clinics should stop providing free formula milk to all HIV-infected mothers.