WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK - AUG 1-7, 2021: PROTECTING BREASTFEEDING, A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY

WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK - AUG 1-7, 2021: PROTECTING BREASTFEEDING, A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY

Effective August 1 to August 7 every year, the world commemorates world breastfeeding week to spread awareness on the importance and need for breastfeeding. This year, similar to previous years, the Makerere University Nursing Students Association (MUNSA) in partnership with Seed Global Health joined the country and the rest of the world; other 170 countries to celebrate this week. This was done through a live televised talk show on UBC TV to raise awareness on the importance of breastfeeding to the public.

To celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, nurses and midwives organised webinars to speak and share about the importance of breastfeeding. The Makerere University Nursing Students Association in partnership with Makerere University College of Health Sciences organised one such webinar on August 3, 2021. The webinar brought on board experts from various fields like nutrition, HIV, nursing and midwifery who shared information and experiences with over 400 participants that were in attendance from Uganda and globally.

To round it off, the Ministry of Health together with the National Midwives Association in Uganda (NMAU) organised another webinar on August 7 and over 90 participants attended this webinar. Congratulations on all these milestones by Nurses and Midwives of Uganda. The president of NMAU reflected by saying:

It was a great honour to host you during the recently held Zoom meeting to commemorate the world breast feeding week. I take this opportunity to appreciate your participation and feedback.

We believe that the journey to protect, promote, and support breast feeding should continue beyond the webinar or other commemoration events. It is this vain that I call upon all those who are interested in pursuing the breast feeding cause further, to send your expression of interest and ideas to nationalmidwivesassociationuganda@gmail.com or presidentnmau@gmail.com

The power point slides for the presentations of the day as well as various links for useful resources on policies and programmes to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding can be obtained by emailing us.

We look forward to hearing from you soon

Stay Safe. Warm Regards

Annette Evelyn Kanyunyuzi

President –NMAU

Tel: 0772488906/ 0704482366