Zincko — Health centres in Burkina Faso tell mothers to feed their babies only breast milk until they are six months old to boost their immune systems, but this advice goes unheeded when the women return home.
This is the second article in a five-part series marking World Breastfeeding Week and the undertapped yet life-saving potential of the practice in West Africa.
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