A&N Islands Observes World Breastfeeding Week 2025 with Give attention to Supportive Insurance policies and Consciousness

Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 01 August 2025

World Breastfeeding Week 2025 is being noticed throughout the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from August 1 to 7, with the worldwide theme “Invest in Breastfeeding, Invest in the Future.” The week-long marketing campaign highlights the crucial want for enhanced coverage help and group consciousness to guard and promote breastfeeding as a cornerstone of human improvement.

The initiative goals to create a secure and supportive surroundings the place moms can breastfeed confidently, with a powerful emphasis on early initiation inside one hour of delivery, unique breastfeeding for the primary six months, and continued breastfeeding as much as two years or past.

To intensify public consciousness, promotional actions will likely be carried out at each the group and facility ranges all through the islands. Health care suppliers will use each level of contact in the course of the week to teach moms and households on the advantages of breastfeeding. These actions will likely be applied in collaboration with stakeholders from each private and non-private establishments, with a give attention to capability constructing and sustained engagement.

All well being establishments throughout the A&N Islands will take part within the marketing campaign, reaffirming the administration’s dedication to maternal and little one well being by means of the promotion of breastfeeding.