Federal government websites often end in. The site is secure. Box: Gondar, Ethiopia. For infants, no one is as nutritious as breastmilk for the rest of their lives. It is a great guarantee for their future health, especially if they can exclusively breastfeed for the next few months, from the moment they are born until the end of the fifth month.
Although breastfeeding rates are very low, there is no data record about it in the Gambia. This study aimed to assess the status of exclusive breastfeeding and its determinants among infants under six months of age in the Gambia.
It is a secondary data analysis using the —20 Gambia demographic and health survey data. A total of weighted mother-infant paired samples were included in the study.
A logistic regression analysis method was employed to declare factors significantly associated with exclusive breastfeeding among infants under six months of age in Gambia. Variables with a p-value of 0. Exclusive breastfeeding was found in Exclusive breastfeeding remains among the public health challenges in the Gambia. Exclusive breastfeeding EBF is defined by the World Health Organization WHO as the state of affairs where the infant has fed only breast milk during their first six months of life from their mother or a wet nurse or expressed breast milk and no other additional liquids or solids, except for drops or syrups consisting of vitamins, mineral supplements, or medicines [ 1 ].
The world will have a chance of protecting more than 1. Globally, of the total 8. Beyond preventing death, EBF provides a strong mother-to-child relationship, reducing various childhood illnesses, including infections, diarrhea, pneumonia, diabetes mellitus, malocclusion, and the like [ 5 , 8 , 9 ].
