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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Adolescent Health Club Discussion Guide
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Adolescent NutritionReproductive Health
The Liberia Ministry of Health and partners developed this guide for adolescent health education with support from Breakthrough ACTION Liberia. Health club supervisors and peer educators will use this guide in both communities and schools to educate young people aged 13–16 years on sexual and reproductive health.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Children's and Adolescents' Characteristics and Interactions with the Food System
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Adolescent NutritionFood Systems
This article describes age-specific characteristics that inform how children and adolescents interact with their food systems and how that relationship influences their diets, using the socio-ecological framework.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Conceptual Framework for Food Systems for Children and Adolescents
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Adolescent NutritionFood Systems
The article describes the Innocenti Framework, its purpose, and how it conceptualizes the dynamic linkages between the elements of food systems to highlight the importance of continuously shaping food systems to deliver nutritious, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets to children and adolescents.
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Behaviors for Better Complementary Feeding: A Social and Behavior Change Workshop Series
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This interactive workshop series brought together implementers to explore nutrition SBC best practices from a new perspective. Participants learned about what nutrition programmers are doing and how to achieve positive complementary feeding results using an evidence-based, behavior-centered approach through storytelling, videos, discussions, and hands-on exercises.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition Coordination Structure For Tanzania 2023
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Brief outlining nutrition coordination structures in Tanzania as defined by the National Multi-sectoral Nutrition Action Plan NMNAPs I (2016–2021) and II (2021–2026). The PMO is mandated to coordinate government business including the work of all ministries, departments, and agencies that are responsible for delivering nutrition-sensitive interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Scoping Review: SBC in Protracted Nutrition Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionBehavior Change for NutritionEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionProgram DesignWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a scoping review of social and behavior change (SBC) for nutrition in protracted emergencies to help stakeholders in the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). We identified a range of guidance and standards; toolkits; evidence reviews, briefs, and case studies; and project-specific documents.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Tanzania Resource Mobilization Strategy
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Knowledge Management
Economic GrowthPrivate-Sector Engagement
For the last two decades, Tanzania has significantly improved nutrition outcomes and made noteworthy efforts in integrating nutrition within key national development agendas. In 2016, the government of the United Republic of Tanzania (URT) launched the National Multi-sectoral Nutrition Action Plan (NMNAP) to scale up multi-sectoral nutrition actions.
Anemia Toolkit
Predicted Effects and Cost-Effectiveness of Wheat Flour Fortification for Reducing Micronutrient Deficiencies, Maternal Anemia, and Neural Tube Defects in Yaoundé and Douala, Cameroon
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Anemia
This paper presents estimates of the cost-effectiveness of a mandatory wheat flour fortification program for reducing cases of micronutrient deficiencies of iron, zinc, folate, vitamin B12, anemia and neural tube defects, and disability-adjusted life years in urban Cameroon.
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Overview of the 2023 Joint Malnutrition Estimates and Strengthening Anthropometric Data Collection to Improve Future Estimates Webinar
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank recently released the 2023 Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates (JME). Generation of the JME can be hampered by poor quality data, which is why the WHO UNICEF Technical Expert Advisory Group on Nutrition Monitoring (TEAM) has established a working group on anthropometry data quality.
Anemia Toolkit
Combined IYCF with Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplementation is Associated with a Reduction in Anemia but No Changes in Anthropometric Status of Young Children from Katanga Province of the DRC: A Quasi-Experimental Effectiveness Study
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Anemia
This study evaluates the impact of an infant and young child feeding intervention (with small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements) on anemia and growth in children aged 6–18 months in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Anemia Toolkit
Accelerating Action to Reduce Anemia: Review of Causes and Risk Factors and Related Data Needs
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Anemia
This narrative review describes the causes and risk factors, and related data needs for reducing anemia for different population subgroups within a country and presents principles for the design and implementation of effective strategies to prevent and treat anemia.
Anemia Toolkit
Diagnosing Anemia: Challenges Selecting Methods, Addressing Underlying Causes, and Implementing Actions at the Public Health Level
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Anemia
This narrative review describes methods, equipment, and sample-related and quality control aspects of hemoglobin measurement for the diagnosis of anemia.
Anemia Toolkit
Integrating and Coordinating Programs for the Management of Anemia Across the Life Course
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Anemia
This narrative review describes the determinants of anemia and outlines opportunities for comprehensive anemia programming, systems strengthening, and implementation research approaches for preschool children, adolescent girls, and pregnant and nonpregnant women of reproductive age
Anemia Toolkit
Comprehensive Framework for Integrated Action on the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Anemia: An Introduction
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Anemia
In 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced in 2021 a commitment to develop a comprehensive framework for integrated action on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of anemia and to establish an Anaemia Action Alliance to support the implementation of the framework.
Anemia Toolkit
Accelerating Anaemia Reduction: A Comprehensive Framework for Action
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Anemia
This document is an output of a World Health Organization cross-program initiative aiming to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and management of anaemia and thereby accelerate reduction of its prevalence.
Anemia Toolkit
WHO Guideline on Use of Ferritin Concentrations to Assess Iron Status in Individuals and Populations
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Anemia
This guideline provides global, evidence-informed recommendations on the use of indicators for assessing a population’s iron status and application of the use of ferritin concentrations for monitoring and evaluating iron interventions.
Anemia Toolkit
Baseline Hemoglobin, Hepcidin, Ferritin, and Total Body Iron Stores are Equally Strong Diagnostic Predictors of a Hemoglobin Response to 12 Weeks of Daily Iron Supplementation in Cambodian Women
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Anemia
This paper reports the performance of hematological biomarkers (hemoglobin [Hb], measured with both a hematology analyzer and a HemoCue; inflammation-adjusted ferritin; soluble transferrin receptor; reticulocyte Hb; hepcidin; mean corpuscular volume; inflammation-adjusted total body iron stores; total iron binding capacity; and transferrin saturation) in predicting a hemoglobin response in nonp
Anemia Toolkit
Use of the Electronic Health Record to Assess Prevalence of Anemia and Iron Deficiency in Pregnancy
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Anemia
This paper explores the use of electronic health records for surveillance of the prevalence of anemia, iron deficiency, and iron-deficiency anemia during first-trimester pregnancies in the United States.
Anemia Toolkit
The Co-Occurrence of Overweight and Micronutrient Deficiencies or Anemia Among Women of Reproductive Age In Malawi
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Anemia
Using data from nonpregnant women aged 15–49 years in the 2015–2016 Malawi Micronutrient Survey, this paper described the prevalence of double burden pf malnutrition (overweight and obesity, and anemia) among Malawian women
Anemia Toolkit
Adjusting Iron and Vitamin A Status in Settings of Inflammation: A Sensitivity Analysis of the Biomarkers Reflecting Inflammation and Nutritional Determinants of Anemia (BRINDA) Approach
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Anemia
Accurate assessment of iron and vitamin A status is needed to inform public health decisions, but most population-level iron and vitamin A biomarkers are independently influenced by inflammation.