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Infant and Young Child Feeding: Model Chapter for Textbooks for Medical Students and Allied Health Professionals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2009.

Infant and Young Child Feeding: Model Chapter for Textbooks for Medical Students and Allied Health Professionals.

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ARA: Arachidonic acid
ARVs: Anti-retroviral drugs
BFHI: Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative
BMS: Breast-milk substitute
cm: centimetre
Code: International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (including subsequent relevant World Health Assembly resolutions)
CRC: Convention on the Rights of the Child
DHA: Docosahexaenoic acid
EBM: Expressed breast milk
ENA: Essential Nutrition Actions
FIL: Feedback inhibitor of lactation
g: gram
GnRH: Gonadotrophic releasing hormone
ILO: International Labour Organization
IMCI: Integrated management of childhood illness
IUGR: Intrauterine growth retardation
Kcal: kilocalorie
KMC: Kangaroo mother care
LBW: Low birth weight
ml: millilitre
MTCT: Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
MUAC: Middle upper-arm circumference
NGO: Non-governmental organization
RUTF: Ready-to-use therapeutic food
SGA: Small for gestational age
slgA: secretory immunoglobulin A
VBLW: Very low birth weight
WHA: World Health Assembly

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