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Formula for disaster: Why overfocus on formula-feeding will not improve our breastfeeding rates
An overly critical approach to infant formula will not improve South Africa’s breastfeeding rates if mother are not helped in systemic ways
North West official suspended over R7m baby formula wastage
A senior North West official has been suspended for his alleged role in the procurement and failure to distribute baby milk formula.
Formula for disaster: North West’s wasted millions in baby milk
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.
No end to bickering over breastfeeding
Breast or bottle is one of the most intimate and essential decisions a new parent has to make.
Professors provoke breastfeeding outrage
UKZN researchers argue that government clinics should stop providing free formula milk to all HIV-infected mothers.