Implementation, Iterative Improvement & Scaling Up
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Mother’s perceptions and experiences of infant feeding within a community-based peer counselling intervention in South Africa. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) has the potential to significantly reduce infant mortality, but is frequently […]
Article Link- 8th July 2011
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Factors contributing to the success of folic acid public health campaigns. BACKGROUND: Studies in the 1990s have found that periconceptional dietary folate, supplementation of folic acid or supplemental multivitamins containing folic […]
Article Link- 3rd July 2011
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Folic acid food fortification-its history, effect, concerns, and future directions. Periconceptional intake of folic acid is known to reduce a woman’s risk of having an infant affected by a neural […]
Article Link- 15th March 2011
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Acceptability of complementary foods and breads prepared from zinc-fortified cereal flours among young children and adults in Senegal We completed a series of studies to assess the acceptability of zinc-fortified, […]
Article Link- 29th November 2010
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“She would sit with me”: mothers’ experiences of individual peer support for exclusive breastfeeding in Uganda. BACKGROUND: Different strategies have been used to improve the initiation and duration of breastfeeding. […]
Article Link- 26th October 2010
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Selling a service: experiences of peer supporters while promoting exclusive infant feeding in three sites in South Africa. BACKGROUND: Even though it has been shown that peer support to mothers at […]
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Moving from vertical to integrated child health programmes: experiences from a multi-country assessment of the Child Health Days approach in Africa. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effect of child health days (CHDs) […]
Article Link- 1st March 2010
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Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices This document presents data on indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices for 46 countries. Authors: World Health Organization, […]
Article Link- 1st January 2010
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Indicators for Assessing Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices: Parts 1, 2, and 3 These guides describe and provide guidance for collection of eight core and seven optional infant and […]
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Impact monitoring of the national scale up of zinc treatment for childhood diarrhea in Bangladesh: repeat ecologic surveys. BACKGROUND: Zinc treatment of childhood diarrhea has the potential to save 400,000 under-five […]
Article Link- 1st November 2009