Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Girls are more likely to report sexual activity to better-looking interviewers and less likely to do so with interviewers holding more discriminatory gender attitudes and greater expectations of the intervention. The study found no evidence that interviewer gender matters.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition gaps in antenatal care services include lack of specificity in national guidelines and protocols, bottlenecks in micronutrient supplies, low provider knowledge and skills, inadequate supervision to reinforce counseling, and inadequate family engagement. National protocols should be more specific about key nutrition interventions and assign accountability for coverage and quality. Country models to improve provision and utilization of nutrition interventions based on comprehensive policy frameworks are critical.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This brief outlines approaches to improve the enabling environment for maternal nutrition counseling. Authors review key considerations for the design of counseling services and strategies to strengthen service delivery platforms and build health worker capacity. They also explore actions to improve women’s access to dietary supplements and nutritious and affordable diets, strategies for delivering counseling services in humanitarian contexts, and approaches to monitoring counseling services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Articles focus on implementing school-based nutrition programs, promoting youth leadership, improving food choices, and supporting pregnant teens. Authors discuss the importance of gender equality and the use of media and social media to influence behaviors, a social entrepreneurship program promoting healthy diets, and a program delivering weekly iron and folic acid supplementation and nutrition education.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This edition presents evaluations from various projects, including a nutrition project in Ethiopia, a maternal and child health project in Sri Lanka, and a family planning project in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
UNICEF provides country teams and their partners with guidance on designing, implementing, and monitoring evidence-based programs to improve women’s nutrition across the life course. It emphasizes the critical role of food, health, water and sanitation, education, social protection, essential nutrition services, and good nutrition practices in all contexts, and describes approaches to strengthen counseling.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A study of evidence, interventions, and guidelines for the nutrition of adolescent girls and women found gaps that include a lack of guidelines on nutrition, preconception nutrition, and assessment of nutritional status. Other gaps include a lack of maternal outcome indicators, conflicting evidence about the best micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy, and a lack of integration of nutrition services within health systems. Authors provide recommendations for all gaps.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To ensure that children receive nutrition support in disaster to prevent malnutrition, this study recommends an explicit and well-coordinated approach that includes preparedness; advocacy; policy development; periodic nutritional assessments and nutritional support; and nutrition education for children, families, and aid workers. Research should examine food allergies in children and how nutrition impacts child mental health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Young children in severely food insecure households, as well as children with inflammation and iron deficiency, had a higher risk of stunting. While wasting risk increased as household wealth decreased, it was lower in iron-deficient children than in iron-replete children. Wasting was also more common in children with recent diarrhea.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Children who received supplementary feeding were less likely to develop severe adult malnutrition (SAM) or die and less likely to develop SAM between 6–24 weeks. These children were more likely to have a healthy mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and higher rates of weight gain and MUAC at 6 weeks and 12 weeks. This article is behind a paywall.