Child Breast-Feeding and food MICS Indicator Indicator Description Value 2.5 Breast-fed Children Percentage of women having had living birth in the 2 years preceding the survey and having breast-fed their last living child at any time 97.2 2.6 Early initiation to breast-feeding Percentage of women having had a living birth in the last 2 years having breast-fed their last born child in the first hour after birth 46.6 2.7 Exclusive Breast-Feeding of Children under 6 months Percentage of babies under 6 months being exclusively breast-fedii 41.4 2.8 Prevailing Breast-Feeding of Children under 6 months Percentage of babies under 6 months fed with breast milk as a prevailing source of food the preceding dayiii 76.4 2.9 Ongoing Breast-feeding for 1 year Percentage of children of 12-15 months being breast-fed the preceding day 95.8 2.10 Ongoing Breast-feeding for 2 years Percentage of children of 20-23 months being breast-fed the preceding day 45.5 2.11 Median Duration of Breastfeeding Age in months in which 50% of children of 0-35 months have not been breast-fed the preceding day. 21.2 2.12 Adequate Breast-feeding According to Age Percentage of children of 0-23 months being adequately fediv the preceding day 65.8 Source: MICS 2014 i Complete Vaccination including the following: BCG, POLIO (0, 1, 2 and 3), PENTA (DTCoq + HepB + Hib, 1, 2 and 3), PCV 13 (1, 2 and 3), Measles (Before the age of 12 months) and Yellow Fever. ii Babies fed with breast milk and not receiving other liquids or food except Oral Rehydration Solutions, vitamins, minerals or medicines iii Babies receiving breast milk and some liquids (water, water-based drinks, fruit juice, ritualistic liquids, Oral Rehydration Solutions, drops, vitamins, minerals and medicines) but don't receive anything else (in particular animal milk and liquid food). iv Babies of 0-5 months exclusively breast-fed and children of 6-23 months breast-fed and eating solid, semi-solid or soft food Education to disease prevention and family planning: 214 Populations' education to disease prevention and family planning is provided through public awareness activities organised by public structures as well as civil society organisation. In primary health care centres (district health care centres, community health care centres) and social promotion centres, animation curricula are built upon several themes (malnutrition, cooking demonstrations, breastfeeding, family planning and contraceptive methods, hygiene) as well as diseases (diarrhoea, cholera, Guinea worm, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS, avian influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, Ebola, etc.).

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