Overview

• Coordinated events under WHO and UNICEF’s “Building Sustainable Support Systems” theme kicked off August 1, featuring prenatal and postnatal workshops in Jujuy, community talks in Santiago del Estero and training sessions in Cajeme
• On August 3, the Gran Tetada in Guadalajara will gather over 2,000 participants to publicly breastfeed and advocate for mothers’ rights, organized by perinatal caregivers with state backing
• Mexico’s exclusive breastfeeding rate reached just 33.6% in 2022, well below the UN’s 70% target, as mothers face only 90 days of leave and lack on-site lactaries
• Health experts and policymakers are urging a unified national breastfeeding policy that would extend parental leave, incentivize employer lactaries and tighten regulation of formula marketing
• In Argentina’s Chaco Salteño, NGO Pata Pila continues its decade-long mission providing integrated medical, nutritional and psychosocial support to mothers in extreme-poverty areas