USAID Advancing Nutrition develops, curates, packages, and shares multi-sectoral nutrition knowledge to help you stay on top of developments and evidence in global nutrition programming.
Multi-Sectoral Anemia Efforts at the National Level in Uganda
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Anemia
This process documentation identifies the successes and challenges of establishing a multi-sectoral anemia platform in Uganda, analyzes the key factors that led to outcomes, and identifies potential areas for making improvements to the process in terms of sustainability of efforts.
Comprehensive Costing in Micronutrient Supplementation
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Anemia
In this brief, SPRING present results from a cost-efficiency study of a pilot program of micronutrient powder (MNP) distribution in Namutumba district in Uganda. This brief discusses costing studies for nutrition interventions generally, and highlights how a cost-efficiency study can influence policy decisions.
This brief describes WHO recommendations for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy to prevent iron deficiency anemia in sub-Saharan Africa countries, and emphasizes the importance of providing the correct dose of folic acid to maximize the effectiveness of interventions to prevent malaria.
Development and Rollout of National Maternal Anemia Materials: Experience from Mozambique
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Anemia
This brief describes the Maternal and Child Survival Program's experience in partnering with Mozambique's Ministry of Health in developing national anemia behavior change communication materials, and using them in the health system.
This WHO report describes estimates of the prevalence of anemia for the year 2011 in preschool-age children (6–59 months) and women of reproductive age (15–49 years), by pregnancy status and by regions of the United Nations and WHO, as well as by country.
Eliminating Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases as a Public Health Problem in Children: Progress Report 2001–2010 and Strategic Plan 2011–2020
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Anemia
This WHO report provides an update on the progress made during the first ten years of implementing soil transmitted helminth control programmes, and identifies opportunities and challenges for scaling up control activities.
The WHO World Malaria Report 2019 is based on information received from more than 80 countries and areas with ongoing malaria transmission. The report tracks investments in malaria programs and research, as well as progress across all intervention areas: prevention, diagnosis, treatment, elimination, and surveillance.
Guideline: Daily Iron Supplementation in Adult Women and Adolescent Girls
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Anemia
This WHO guideline provides evidence-based recommendations on daily iron supplementation in menstruating adult women and adolescents, as a public health intervention for the prevention of anemia and iron deficiency.
Understanding Anemia: Guidance for Conducting a Landscape Analysis (November 2016)
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Anemia
Understanding Anemia: Guidance for Conducting a Landscape Analysis is a tool that provides guidance to support data collection and analysis for understanding the anemia situation and supporting an evidence-based approach to anemia prevention and reduction.
WHO Recommendations on Antenatal Care for a Positive Pregnancy Experience
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Anemia
This WHO guideline provides recommendations for routine antenatal care (ANC) for pregnant women and adolescent girls and aims to complement existing WHO guidelines on the management of specific pregnancy-related complications. The guideline addresses the following questions: 1) What evidence-based ANC practices improve outcomes and lead to a positive pregnancy experience?
Success in Delivering Interventions to Reduce Maternal Anemia in Nepal: A Case Study of the Intensification of Maternal and Neonatal Micronutrient Program
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Anemia
This case study describes the development of the Iron Intensification Project in Nepal, its design, the implementation process at the district level, the strategy used to scale it up, the data available to describe coverage, and the reduction in maternal anemia in the country between 1998 and 2006.
Guidelines on Food Fortification with Micronutrients
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Anemia
These World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines provide practical guidance on how food fortification should be implemented, monitored, and evaluated. They are intended as a resource for governments and agencies currently implementing or considering food fortification, and as a source of information for scientists, technologists, and the food industry.
Infographic on Standards for Improving Quality of Care for Children and Young Adolescents in Health Facilities
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Adolescent NutritionMental HealthReproductive Health
This infographic illustrates the eight quality of care standards for children and young adolescents in health facilities. The standards related to improving the provision of care, the experience of care, and creating a child- and adolescent-friendly environment.
Feed the Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems: Volume I - Project Design
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Adolescent Nutrition
Volume I of this two-part Feed The Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems provides USAID staff and implementing partners with approaches, frameworks, and tools to design agriculture programs that promote successful and meaningful youth engagement with the U.S. Feed the Future Initiative and the U.S. Government Global Food Security Strategy.
Feed the Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems: Volume II - Implementation
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Adolescent Nutrition
Volume II of this two-part Feed The Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems, which is intended for USAID staff and implementers, offers implementation guidance for activity-level interventions.
This resource is a guide for positive living for adolescents living with HIV. The nutrition topics addressed include diet, quantity and quality of foods, junk food, and vitamins and minerals.
Standards for Improving the Quality of Care for Children and Young Adolescents in Health Facilities
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Adolescent Nutrition
These standards provide guidance to health care facilities for improving the quality of maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health care. The guidance is designed to ensure that the care given to all children and adolescents in health facilities is evidence-based, safe, effective, timely, efficient, equitable,. and appropriate for the patient's age and stage of development.
Standards for Improving the Quality of Care for Children and Young Adolescents in Health Facilities: Policy Brief
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Adolescent Nutrition
This policy brief describes the standards that provide guidance to health care facilities for improving the quality of maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health care.
Adolescent Nutrition in Demographic and Health Surveys
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaReproductive Health
This story map summarizes the state of nutrition for adolescents age 15 to 19 from 62 countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and East Asia Pacific. The story map present data on underweight, overweight, and anemia.
Adolescent Nutrition 2000-2017: DHS Data on Adolescents 15-19
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Adolescent NutritionAnemia
This report summarizes information about nutrition for adolescent girls and boys ages 15 to 19, using data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), conducted in 65 low-income and 22 middle-income countries. The report describes the prevalence of anthropometric measurements, childbearing, anemia, iron supplementation, and women’s dietary diversity.