Celebrated every first seven days of August each year, World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) represents a global celebration of breastfeeding efforts including breastfeeding promotion, support, education, research, progressive trends and normalizing breastfeeding as the gold standard of infant nutrition.
Celebrated under the theme:
“Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility” .
The 2021 WBW will focus on how breastfeeding contributes to the survival, health and well being of all, and the imperative to protect breastfeeding worldwide.