Award to Lancet article on breastfeeding promotion in sub-Saharan Africa
A study assessing the effect of breastfeeding counselling by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa was awarded this year's research prize at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.
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Thorkild Tylleskär at the Centre for International Health and his collaborators conducted a large intervention study assessing the effect of breastfeeding counselling by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa. Women from communities in Burkina Faso, Uganda and South Africa received training, who in turn provided breastfeeding counselling to others.
The study, led by researchers at the Centre for International Health, was conducted by a research consortium of three European and four African universities. The results of the study was published in The Lancet and is available in PubMed
Candidates are each year nominated by all the institutes at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. The award ceremony took place at the board meeting on June 13.