or a control intervention of continuing usual infant feeding practices. The counselling was provided by the health care workers of maternity hospitals and polyclinics of Belarus. The results favored the intervention group with infants from intervention sites significantly more likely than control group infants to be breastfed to any degree at 12 months [17]. Although this trial was also based on the BFHI program, the intervention was facility based in this study and not community based as was in our study.