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Geneva - Breast-feeding is saving the lives of six million babies a year, but the number could be even higher if more mothers would use the time-honoured method, the United Nations children's (Unicef) agency said on Tuesday...

Geneva - Breast-feeding is saving the lives of six million babies a year, but the number could be even higher if more mothers would use the time-honoured method, the United Nations children's (Unicef) agency said on Tuesday. "Only 39% of infants in developing countries are exclusively breast fed" said Unicef. "Lack of awareness amongst mothers, and lack of support from health workers and communities, is largely to blame." A separate joint statement by Unicef, the World Health Organisation and other organisations said, however, that HIV-positive mothers needed counselling and advice in deciding how to breast feed their babies because of the risk that the infant could be infected...

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