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    "id": 739933,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/739933/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W. Chege",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "In 2003, 13 per cent of mothers were the only ones who were breastfeeding exclusively. It is also good to notify the House that it is recommended that a child should exclusively be breastfed for six months without having anything else to feed on. This year, according to the National Demographic and Health Survey, 61 per cent of children aged less than six months were breastfeeding exclusively. This is a remarkable growth from 2003 from 13 per cent to 61 per cent now. This achievement is as a result of massive drive to promote breastfeeding through two programmes that are set up by the Kenya Government: the baby-friendly hospitals initiative and the baby-friendly community initiative. They promote breastfeeding in hospitals at the time of delivery and other breastfeeding initiatives in the community. Both have been proposed in the country’s most recent maternal infant and young children nutrition strategies stretching to 2017 which we are in now. Although the initiatives have not yet been scaled up fully, they have created mass awareness of breastfeeding and the Government plans to increase exclusive breastfeeding to 80 per cent by the end of this year."
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