PROBIT I

June 1996-December 1997 

PROBIT's randomized intervention significantly increased the duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding. Infants at intervention sites were more likely to be exclusively breastfed at 3 and 6 months and were less likely to experience gastrointestinal infections or atopic eczema during their first year of life. Researchers found no adverse effects associated with exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months.

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  • 1996-1997:
    Michael Kramer, MD: McGill University, Quebec, Canada

  • 1996-1997:
    Belarus: Zinaida Sevkovskaya, MD; Irina Dzikovich, MD, PhD; Irina Vanilovich, MD; Vyacheslav Zubovich, MD, PhD; Dimitri Mknuik, MD, PhD; Elena Gluchanina, MD; Viktor Dombrovskiy, MD, PhD; Anatoly Ustinovitch, MD, PhD; Tamara Kot, MD; Natalia Bogdanovich, MD, PhD; Lydia Ovchinikova, RN.