Egypt’s commitment to scale with Baby Friendly

Egypt was one of the 12 flagship countries that led the path for promoting, supportingand protecting breastfeeding through Baby Friendly hospitals around the world. This started in1991 when the Inoccenti declaration was announced. At this time UNICEF took the lead insupporting Egypt to lay the foundation for a model of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiativeprogramme (BFHI) implementation which later moved towards making maternal and childhealth centers all over the country Baby Friendly.