Black Breastfeeding Week, which started today, was created because - TopicsExpress



          

Black Breastfeeding Week, which started today, was created because for over 40 years there has been a gaping racial disparity in breastfeeding rates. The most recent US CDC data show that 75% of white women have ever breastfed versus 58.9% of black women. The fact that racial disparity in initiation and even bigger one for duration has lingered for so long is reason enough to take 7 days to focus on the issue, see here for a few more: blackbreastfeedingweek.org/why-we-need-black-breastfeeding-week/
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:18:31 +0000

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