What does CPS stand for?

A short time later, the Canadian Paediatric Society and the College of Family Physicians of Canada joined forces with the CMA to form the nidus for a pan-Canadian Child Health Initiative (CHI).

Eleven national organizations are involved in the initiative-the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Metis National Council, the National Aboriginal Health Organization, the National Indian and Inuit Community Health Representatives Organization, the National Association of Friendship Centres, Pauktutit Inuit Women of Canada, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, and the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS).

With >350 liaisons and collaborators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the World Health Organization, and others, the 12-member 2004-2006 Committee on Infectious Diseases issued the current edition, which reflects the state of the art at the time of publication and is updated every 3 years.

A comprehensive report was published by the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS), Infectious Diseases and Immunization Committee, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Committee on Infectious Diseases in 1997, which was reaffirmed in February 2003, in which they addressed meningococcal disease prevention and control strategies for practice-based physicians.

Even the Canadian Paediatric Society in its latest feeding statement acknowledges that women may want to breastfeed for two years or longer.

The Canadian Paediatric Society is delighted to have coordinated the efforts of many organizations that helped to develop this joint statement," said Beaudry.