Exclusive breastfeeding policy, practice and influences in South Africa, 1980 to 2018: A mixed-methods systematic review

• Sara Jewett Nieuwoudt ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sara.nieuwoudt@wits.ac.za

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa, SAMRC Developmental Pathways Health and Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6658-2061

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• Christian B. Ngandu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SAMRC Developmental Pathways Health and Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Lenore Manderson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America, School of Social Sciences, Menzies Building, Clayton Campus, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7883-1790

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• Shane A. Norris

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations SAMRC Developmental Pathways Health and Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Human Development and Health, and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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