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See this response from Om: First of all, the statement in the question needs to be corrected. At WaterAid we don’t promote ‘hygiene education’ believing that educating people doesn’t necessarily change behaviours therefore we rather motivate, promote and change the social norms related to specific behaviours using novel approaches. Secondly, irrespective of availability of water, we always promote exclusive breastfeeding up to six months. That’s the only way child gets enough nutrients, maintains water level in the body and builds immune system to better protect from infection / diseases in their early life. Introducing bottle milk altogether a different behaviour and the consequences are sometimes devastating such as ingestation of contamination either through the unclean bottle, used untreated water while preparing the bottle milk or milk itself? Mainly in low and middle-income countries, the exposure to contamination while feeding bottle milk are highly likely.

See this response from Om: First of all, the statement in the question needs to be corrected. At WaterAid we don’t promote ‘hygiene education’ believing that educating people doesn’t necessarily change behaviours therefore we rather motivate, promote and change the social norms related to specific behaviours using novel approaches. Secondly, irrespective of availability of water, we always promote exclusive breastfeeding up to six months. That’s the only way child gets enough nutrients, maintains water level in the body and builds immune system to better protect from infection / diseases in their early life. Introducing bottle milk altogether a different behaviour and the consequences are sometimes devastating such as ingestation of contamination either through the unclean bottle, used untreated water while preparing the bottle milk or milk itself? Mainly in low and middle-income countries, the exposure to contamination while feeding bottle milk are highly likely. likely. (continued below)

See this response from Om: First of all, the statement in the question needs to be corrected. At WaterAid we don’t promote ‘hygiene education’ believing that educating people doesn’t necessarily change behaviours behaviours; therefore we rather motivate, promote and change the social norms related to specific behaviours using novel approaches. Secondly, irrespective of availability of water, we always promote exclusive breastfeeding up to six months. That’s the only way child gets enough nutrients, maintains water level in the body and builds immune system to better protect from infection / diseases in their early life. Introducing bottle bottled milk is altogether a different behaviour and the consequences are sometimes devastating such as ingestation ingestion of contamination either through the unclean bottle, used untreated water while preparing the bottle milk or milk itself? itself. Mainly in low and middle-income countries, the exposure to contamination while feeding bottle milk are is highly likely. (continued below)