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26 year old Masita Lemorin breast feeds her 4 month old son Nathanael as her daughter Anne watches at her house in Quicroit, an isolated village on the mountains south of Port au Prince, Haiti.
UNICEF/Marco Dormino

Breastfeeding in first crucial hour is ‘the foundation of life’ – UNICEF expert

30 July 2018
Interviews

Failing to breastfeed in the first hour after birth, puts newborns at higher risk of death and disease, and makes mothers less likely to persevere with breastfeeding, says UNICEF, together with the World Health Organization (WHO) in a new report to mark the start of World Breastfeeding Week.  UNICEF Nutrition Specialist for infants and young children, Maaike Arts, spoke to UN News.

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On 20 June 2018, a member of the WHO Ebola ring vaccination team vaccinates a man in Bosolo village, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
WHO/Lindsay Mackenzie

DR Congo Ebola outbreak officially over, as WHO says fear of virus spreading spurred on operation

24 July 2018
Interviews

As the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially declared the end of its most recent deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus on Tuesday, Dr Renée van de Weerdt, Deputy Head of Operations at the World Health Organization’s (WHO), has been recounting how even just reaching the first victims, was a major logistical challenge.  She spoke to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.

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