Expenditures on Strengthening Large Scale Breastfeeding Counseling Programs in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam
The costs of enabling mothers’ environment for breastfeeding through large-scale programs that successfully address critical factors at multiple levels are only a fraction of the losses due to deaths and illnesses from poor breastfeeding practices. In Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Vietnam, the programs reached between 400,000 to 1.2 million pregnant women, infants, and mothers annually at



