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Maria Luiza G. Braun, MSc, Elsa R. J. Giugliani, MD, PhD, Maria Emília Mattos Soares, MD, Camila Giugliani, Andréa Proenço de Oliveira and Claudia Maria Machado Danelon

Maria Luiza G. Braun is with the School of Nutrition, Instituto Metodista de Educação e Cultura, Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the Department of Health, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Elsa R. J. Giugliani is with Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Maria Emília Mattos Soares is with Hospital Fêmina de Porto Alegre, Brazil. Camila Giugliani, Andréa Proenço de Oliveira, and Claudia Maria Machado Danelon are students at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Maria L. G. Braun, Rua 24 de Outubro, 1121/904, 90510–003, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil (e-mail: lubraun@cpovo.net).

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	INTRODUCTION

 
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is based on the Ten Steps to Successful Breast-Feeding, a program which summarize the practices that maternity wards need to adopt to support breastfeeding.¹ There are more than 16 000 Baby-Friendly Hospitals throughout the world, and of these, more than 200 are located in Brazil.

Despite the abundance of studies evaluating each of the 10 steps or a combination of them, information on the impact of BFHI on the duration of breastfeeding is limited. Recently, a large randomized controlled trial including 31 hospitals in Belarus showed that an intervention based on BFHI principles increased breastfeeding . . . [Full Text]

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