WHA RESOLUTION 65.6
26 May 2012
Maternal, infant and young child nutrition
SIXTY-FIFTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY
Agenda item 13.3,
The Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly,
Having considered the report on maternal, infant and young child nutrition: draft comprehensive implementation plan,1
1. ENDORSES the comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition;
2. URGES Member States,2 to put into practice, as appropriate, the comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition, including:
(1) developing or, where necessary, strengthening nutrition policies so that they
comprehensively address the double burden of malnutrition and include nutrition actions in
overall country health and development policy, and establishing effective intersectoral
governance mechanisms in order to expand the implementation of nutrition actions with
particular emphasis on the framework of the global strategy on infant and young child feeding;
(2) developing or, where necessary, strengthening legislative, regulatory and/or other
effective measures to control the marketing of breast-milk substitutes;
(3) establishing a dialogue with relevant national and international parties and forming
alliances and partnerships to expand nutrition actions with the establishment of adequate
mechanisms to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest;
(4) implementing a comprehensive approach to capacity building, including workforce
development;
3. REQUESTS the Director-General:
(1) to provide clarification and guidance on the inappropriate promotion of foods for infants
and young children cited in resolution WHA63.23, taking into consideration the ongoing work
of the Codex Alimentarius Commission;
(2) to support Member States in the monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes,
including those of the global strategy for infant and young child feeding, with the latest
evidence on nutrition;
(3) to develop risk assessment, disclosure and management tools to safeguard against
possible conflicts of interest in policy development and implementation of nutrition
programmes consistent with WHO’s overall policy and practice;
(4) to report, through the Executive Board, to the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly on
progress in the implementation of the comprehensive implementation plan, together with the
report on implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and
related Health Assembly resolutions.
Tenth plenary meeting, 26 May 2012
A65/VR/10
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1) Document A65/11.
2) And, where applicable, regional economic integration organizations.
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