[EQ] Shared Principles of Ethics for Infant and Young Child Nutrition in the Developing World

Shared Principles of Ethics for Infant and Young Child Nutrition in the Developing World

Jerome Amir Singh1,2,3 , Abdallah S Daar1  and Peter A Singer1

1  McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2  Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, South Africa

3  Joint Centre for Bioethics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

BMC Public Health 2010

Available online at: http://bit.ly/97zsK6

 

“…..The Shared Principles of Ethics for Infant and Young Child Nutrition in the Developing World described herein is intended to unite stakeholders in a shared vision and common goal: reduce and eventually eliminate childhood malnutrition in the developing world through the scale-up of low cost, high quality complementary foods, using home available or locally procured ingredients wherever feasible.

 

The principles were drafted after a review of sources that have relevance to virtually all stakeholders and constituencies in the infant feeding arena. These include civil society codes of conduct, corporate social responsibility frameworks, governance frameworks, global health ethics frameworks, international health guidelines, consumer rights frameworks, and human rights instruments.

 

The proposed principles are intended to complement and supplement existing laws, trade regimes, international Codes, and international goals (see Additional file 1). In this paper, we outline our proposed shared principles for stakeholders in the complementary feeding arena…..”

Additional file 1. Existing laws, trade regimes, international codes, and international goals relevant to infant and child nutrition. This file contains the existing primary international instruments and position statements relevant to infant and child nutrition.
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For further information, please contact Peter Singer: peter.singer@mrcglobal.org-  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/321

The McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health is based at University Health Network and University of Toronto.
The McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health hosts Grand Challenges Canada.

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