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PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193145 February 22, 2018 1 / 13
Reporting period January 2015 – December 2015
Bucharest, April 2016
Women and children, especially pregnant girls and women, infants and young children and postpartum women, are populations that are extremely vulnerable in emergencies. Breastfeeding provides children with hydration, comfort, connection, high quality nutrition and protection against disease, shieldin...g them from the worst of emergency conditions. This ability has been described as empowering and healing by some breastfeeding women.
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PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0172392 February 16, 2017
Climate change is having the largest impact on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. Within this group, 20% are people with disabilities, who are nearly always doubly disadvantaged.