Implementation, Iterative Improvement & Scaling Up

Mainstreaming nutrition into maternal and child health programmes: scaling up of exclusive breastfeeding. Interventions to promote exclusive breastfeeding have been estimated to have the potential to prevent 13% of all […]

Maternal and child undernutrition: effective action at national level. 80% of the world’s undernourished children live in just 20 countries. Intensified nutrition action in these countries can lead to achievement […]

Determinants of high vitamin A supplementation coverage among pre-school children in Mali: the National Nutrition Weeks experience. OBJECTIVES: To assess vitamin A supplementation (VAS) coverage of children aged 6-59 months and […]

Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for Measurement of Food Access: Indicator Guide The Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) provides a simple and user-friendly approach for measuring the impacts […]

Factors that affect the adoption and maintenance of weekly vitamin A supplementation among women in Ghana. OBJECTIVE: To identify regimen, individual, community and cultural factors that affect adoption and adherence […]

Cereal fortification programs in developing countries. Malnutrition is a major problem among children especially in the developing world. In most developing countries children show growth faltering between 6 and 24 […]

Wheat flour fortification is unlikely to benefit the neediest in Guatemala. The potential impact of wheat flour fortification with iron and folic acid was assessed using data about food purchases […]

Day-care management of children with severe malnutrition in an urban health clinic in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Management of severely malnourished children with associated complications relies on hospital-based treatment. Implementation of a […]

Appreciation of school deworming program by parents in Ha Giang Province (Vietnam). School-based deworming programs are one of the most cost-effective public health strategies to reach children with anthelminthics and […]

Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) for Measurement of Household Food Access: Indicator Guide This guide provides an approach to collecting and measuring household dietary diversity as a proxy measure of […]