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Lactation Newsmakers: Documenting our History-The Current State of Breastfeeding in Ukraine: An Interview With Lidiia Romanenko and Olha Shlemkevych.

Lidiia RomanenkoOlha ShlemkevychMaryse Arendt
Published in: Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association (2023)
In this issue, we are featuring an interview with two medical doctors from Ukraine, who are specialists in breastfeeding, and work with the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in Ukraine. The authors met during the Eleventh BFHI Network Meeting of Country Coordinators from Industrialized Countries, Eastern Europe, and the Commonwealth of Independent States, in Brussels in June 2022 (Hernández-Aguilar, M. T., 2022). Ukrainian citizens have lived in a war situation since February 24, 2022, when Russia first attacked; this has had a huge impact on infant feeding issues.
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