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The Ife South Breastfeeding Project: training community health extension workers to promote and manage breastfeeding in rural communities

Author(s): 
A.A. Davies-Adetugbo & H.A. Adebawa

Topics: Community health workers, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Training

Year: 
1997

Region and Country: Nigeria

Language: 
English

This article presents the findings of a project to promote exclusive breastfeeding in rural communities through the training of community health extension workers in rural Nigeria. The authors found that the training of extension health workers in rural communities is feasible, can have a beneficial impact on breastfeeding promotion, and that such training should be continued and incorporated into the primary health care system.

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