Implementation, Iterative Improvement & Scaling Up

Implementing an integrated nutrition package at large scale in Madagascar: the Essential Nutrition Actions framework. BACKGROUND: Madagascar has some of the highest rates of child stunting, maternal malnutrition, and infant mortality […]

Lessons learned from implementation of a demonstration program to reduce the burden of anemia and hookworm in women in Yen Bai Province, Viet Nam. BACKGROUND: Iron deficiency, anemia and hookworm disease […]

Counseling and choosing between infant-feeding options: overall limits and local interpretations by health care providers and women living with HIV in resource-poor countries (Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon). As part of […]

Programmatic effects of a large-scale multiple-micronutrient supplementation trial in Indonesia: using community facilitators as intermediaries for behavior change. BACKGROUND: Clinical trials can serve as an opportunity gateway for enhanced health benefits […]

Nepal’s vitamin A supplementation programme, 15 years on: Sustained growth in coverage and equity and children still missed. Nepal’s national vitamin A programme, that started in a few districts in […]

Infant and young child feeding – tools and materials Tools developed to facilitate the implementation of the Global Strategy and increase coverage of effective interventions. Author: WHO

Operational issues and trends associated with the pilot introduction of zinc for childhood diarrhoea in Bougouni district, Mali. Zinc for the treatment of childhood diarrhoea was introduced in a pilot […]

National food-fortification program with folic acid in Chile. The Chilean Ministry of Health legislated to add folic acid (2.2 mg/100 g) to wheat flour to reduce the risk of neural […]

Review of interventions for the prevention and control of folate and vitamin B12 deficiencies. Folate and vitamin B12 deficiencies represent important and evolving global health challenges that contribute to the […]

Coverage of the national vitamin A supplementation program in Ethiopia. Periodic vitamin A supplementation is a major intervention to reduce morbidity, mortality, and blindness among children in developing countries. The […]