Nutrition Specific

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Development of food-based complementary feeding recommendations for 9- to 11-month-old peri-urban Indonesian infants using linear programming. Effective population-specific, food-based complementary feeding recommendations (CFR) are required to combat micronutrient deficiencies. To […]

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 […]

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 […]