UNICEF Ghana urges legal and systemic support for breastfeeding
UNICEF Ghana joined the global community in observing World Breastfeeding Week (1–7 August 2025)—this year themed “Breastfeeding: Building Systems for Lifelong Health”—issuing a renewed call for sustainable support frameworks and stronger legal protections to ensure mothers can initiate and continue breastfeeding safely. Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months is globally recommended by UNICEF and WHO, yet in Ghana only 52.6% of infants under six months are exclusively breastfed, while 41.8% of newborns are not breastfed within the first hour of life. Nationally, the median duration of exclusive breastfeeding stands at just 2.9 months, far short of the six-month recommendation. These figures vary sharply by region: in the Western North Region the average is just one month, while in the Savannah Region it reaches only 4.9 months. UNICEF Ghana reaffirmed that progress remains fragile and inequitable. More than half of […]