Infant and young child feeding practices in two provinces of Afghanistan: results from two rounds of large country-lot quality assurance sampling surveys

• Published in: International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health Vol. 5; no. 11; p. 4761
• Main Authors: Shinwari, Ibrahim, Aminee, Ahmad Wali, Warvadekar, Kirti, Gupta, Payal, Chaudhery, Deepika Nayar, Raut, Manoj Kumar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 25.10.2018

Background: As per NNS 2013, about 58% of the infants aged 0-5 months were exclusively breastfed. The data also shows that only 41% infants 6-8 months of age were introduced solid, semi-solid and soft foods. Further only 28% of children aged 6-23 months received foods from four or more food groups d...