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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Old Tricks, New Opportunities: How Companies Violate the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes and Undermine Maternal and Child Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Companies are using health claims and misinformation about breastfeeding (BF) to capitalize on pandemic fears. Proposed immediate actions include using findings to inform World Health Assembly actions, increasing enforcement of International Code violations, and addressing misinformation about BF in the context of the pandemic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Initiation of Breastfeeding in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Time-to-Event Analysis
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BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Cesarean deliveries are associated with a significant delay in initiating breastfeeding (BF) while immediate skin-to-skin contact is associated with earlier initiation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Implementing a Novel Facility-Community Intervention for Strengthening Integration of Infant Nutrition and Family Planning in Mara and Kagera, Tanzania
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BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
A multifaceted intervention to integrate maternal and infant nutrition and postpartum family planning (FP) into existing health contacts increased FP and early breastfeeding (EBF) at six weeks postpartum, demonstrated that lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) was acceptable, provided an entry point for important FP conversations, and reinforced EBF practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Micronutrient Powders for Infants and Young Children
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Food fortification is a highly effective strategy to address micronutrient deficiencies, provided that suitable food products are available and that cost, taste, and appearance are not affected.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Vitamin A Deficiency Has Declined in Malawi, But with Evidence of Elevated Vitamin A in Children
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Adolescent NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
While the use of vitamin A-fortified staple foods and biannual high-dose vitamin A supplementation has led to the near elimination of vitamin A deficiency in Malawi, elevated levels of vitamin A among children suggests that interventions may need modification.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Haemoglobin Thresholds to Define Anaemia in a National Sample of Healthy Children and Adolescents Aged 1–19 Years in India: A Population-Based Study
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaGrowth Monitoring and PromotionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Research findings support review of current WHO hemoglobin cutoffs to define anemia. Significant variations in the 5th percentile of hemoglobin values across the 1–19 years age range and between sexes argue against constructing common cutoffs in stratified age groups for convenience.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
40th Anniversary of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes Event
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BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Speakers present historical examples of implementing the International Code and discuss breastfeeding; first food systems and corporate power; the exposure to, and impact of, baby food marketing; and protecting breastfeeding from breast-milk substitutes marketing. This webinar is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Thinking Regionally About Industrial Food Fortification
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Micronutrient InterventionsPrivate-Sector Engagement
Regional industrial food fortification program standardization requires aligning standards and regulatory frameworks; strengthening public- and private-sector institutional capacity to implement programs in a sustained way; monitoring guidelines; and cooperation around quality control, compliance, and enforcement.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Role of Micronutrients in Child Growth and Development
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Speakers discuss the relationship between micronutrient deficiencies in mothers and children and how evidence-based interventions and nutrition policy can help alleviate micronutrient malnutrition. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Program in International Nutrition (PIN) Podcast with Shawn Baker and Saurabh Mehta
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COVID-19Private-Sector Engagement
Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist at USAID, discusses financing for improved nutrition, maternal and child health, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global health. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Program in International Nutrition (PIN) Podcast with Shawn Baker
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Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist at USAID, talks about his career trajectory and shares advice for students and young professionals in public health nutrition. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
New Resources for IYCF Programming—Updated Image Bank
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COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
High-quality images are an essential component of social and behavior change, and illustrations can be particularly helpful where literacy rates and access to media are low. Updates expand the collection of IYCF images to include content on responsive feeding, responsive care, and overweight and obesity. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mycotoxin Exposure and Nutritional Status in the First 1000 Days: Policy and Programmatic Implications
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Food SafetyInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Speakers discuss the programmatic and policy implications of the relationship between nutritional status and mycotoxin exposure. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Key Messages to Help Strengthen Infant and Young Child Feeding during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This video provides frontline health and nutrition workers with messages to provide pregnant women, mothers, and caregivers about infant and young child feeding in the context of the pandemic. This webinar is available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Online Trainings: Feed the Future Ethiopia Growth through Nutrition Activity
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COVID-19Food SafetyFood SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Short online courses focus on strengthening food consumption information systems; environmental enteropathy; sustainable agriculture and the role of livestock; research challenges at the intersection of agriculture, diet, and health; COVID-19 and nutrition; food safety; good governance; and nutrition policy and programs, among others.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Elevating Mothers’ and Women’s Nutrition
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Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
USAID Advancing Nutrition has conducted a systematic review of evidence on behavioral interventions about how to involve family members in supporting women’s nutrition, launched the Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank, and developed a learning agenda on women’s diets to synthesize evidence and learning across its portfolio.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Child Health Task Force Resource Library
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Adolescent Nutrition
This database hosts documents from agencies and organizations working on child health programming. Resources include journal articles, presentations, webinars, tools, and event materials.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Tackling Malnutrition: Improving Both Food and Health Systems
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COVID-19
Nearly one in three people around the world had at least one form of malnutrition before the COVID-19 pandemic, and trends suggest this will rise to one in two people by 2025. The pandemic could result in an additional 11.9 million severely malnourished children, and malnutrition will likely kill more people than the virus itself.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2021 World Food Prize Announcement
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Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted received the 2021 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking work to develop holistic and nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquaculture and food systems. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Achieving Equitable Diets for All: The Long and Winding Road
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Political commitment, science and data, incentives, and collectivism will help achieve global goals to improve food systems for healthy, equitable, and sustainable diets by 2050. This commentary by Jessica Fanzo is behind a paywall.