Nutrition Section, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Country Office, 125 Rue Faubert, Pétionville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Bull World Health Organ. 2013 Aug 1;91(8):612-7. doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.113936. Epub 2013 Jun 20.
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti displaced about 1.5 million people, many of them into camps for internally displaced persons. It was expected that disruption of breastfeeding practices would lead to increased infant morbidity, malnutrition and mortality.
Haiti's health ministry and the United Nations Children's Fund, in collaboration with local and international nongovernmental organizations, established baby tents in the areas affected by the earthquake. The tents provided a safe place for mothers to breastfeed and for non-breastfed infants to receive ready-to-use infant formula. Such a large and coordinated baby tent response in an emergency context had never been mounted before anywhere in the world.
Baby tents were set up in five cities but mainly in Port-au-Prince, where the majority of Haiti's 1555 camps for displaced persons had been established.
Between February 2010 and June 2012, 193 baby tents were set up; 180 499 mother-infant pairs and 52 503 pregnant women were registered in the baby tent programme. Of infants younger than 6 months, 70% were reported to be exclusively breastfed and 10% of the "mixed feeders" moved to exclusive breastfeeding while enrolled. In 2010, 13.5% of registered infants could not be breastfed. These infants received ready-to-use infant formula.
Thanks to rapid programme scale-up, breastfeeding practices remained undisrupted. However, better evaluation methods and comprehensive guidance on the implementation and monitoring of baby tents are needed for future emergencies, along with a clear strategy for transitioning baby tent activities into facility and community programmes.
2010 年海地地震导致约 150 万人流离失所，其中许多人进入国内流离失所者营地。据预计，母乳喂养做法的中断将导致婴儿发病率、营养不良和死亡率上升。
海地卫生部和联合国儿童基金会与当地和国际非政府组织合作，在受地震影响的地区建立了婴儿帐篷。这些帐篷为母亲提供了一个安全的地方进行母乳喂养，为非母乳喂养的婴儿提供了即用型婴儿配方奶粉。在世界任何地方，以前从未在紧急情况下采取过如此大规模和协调的婴儿帐篷应对措施。
婴儿帐篷在五个城市设立，但主要在太子港设立，海地 1555 个流离失所者营地中的大多数都设在太子港。
2010 年 2 月至 2012 年 6 月期间，设立了 193 个婴儿帐篷；180499 对母婴和 52503 名孕妇在婴儿帐篷方案中登记。在 6 个月以下的婴儿中，据报告有 70%的婴儿完全母乳喂养，而在入营时，10%的“混合喂养者”转为完全母乳喂养。2010 年，13.5%的登记婴儿无法进行母乳喂养。这些婴儿接受了即用型婴儿配方奶粉。
由于方案快速扩大规模，母乳喂养做法保持未中断。然而，未来的紧急情况需要更好的评估方法和关于婴儿帐篷的实施和监测的综合指导，并需要制定明确的战略，将婴儿帐篷活动过渡到设施和社区方案。
