Monthly Archives March 2023

On 13th February, the Department for Health and Social Care will launch the Better Health Start for Life – Introducing Solid Foods campaign. Weaning is when you introduce your baby to solid foods alongside breastmilk or infant formula. The campaign will offer parents support and advice on introducing solid foods, helping to cut through misinformation and confusion through simple, easy to understand information, delivered through three easy to remember ‘Weaning 101’ prompts; when you should start introducing solid foods, why it’s important to wait until around 6 months and what to feed your baby. The NHS recommends that most parents
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Today we are promoting International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. This year the global campaign #EmbraceEquity is being used to challenge gender stereotypes, call out discrimination, draw attention to bias, and seek out inclusion. If we all work together, we can drive momentous change to create a stronger, more inclusive world and truly #EmbraceEquity.
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Today we are celebrating Zero Discrimination Day, a campaign run by UNAIDS to highlight how people can become informed and promote inclusion, compassion, peace and a movement for change. Under the theme “Save lives: Decriminalise” UNAIDS want to highlight how the decriminalisation of key populations and people living with HIV saves lives and helps advance the end of the AIDS pandemic.   Despite some encouraging reforms, the world is still far from achieving its target and in fact today there are: 134 countries explicitly criminalising or otherwise prosecuting HIV exposure, non-disclosure or transmission 20 countries criminalise and/or prosecute transgender persons
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