Overview

• World Breastfeeding Week 2025 launched August 1 under the WHO and UNICEF theme “Building Sustainable Support Systems,” with events across Latin America to promote breastfeeding as a public health priority.
• Jujuy’s Provincial Directorate of Maternity, Infancy and Adolescence began a series of prenatal and postnatal workshops this week to equip mothers and communities with breastfeeding information and practical support.
• On August 3, Guadalajara will host its “Gran Tetada,” aiming to unite over 2,000 participants in a public breastfeeding event organized by the Asociación de Cuidadores Perinatales and state authorities.
• Mexico records a 33.6% exclusive breastfeeding rate—far below the UN’s 70% target—hampered by a 90-day maternity leave policy and widespread lack of workplace lactaries.
• Experts and NGOs, including Argentina’s Pata Pila in the Chaco Salteño, are calling for coordinated national strategies featuring extended parental leave, lactaries, medical training and stricter regulation of formula marketing.