USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The U.S. Government's Global Food Security Strategy presents an integrated approach to combating the root causes of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. This guidance on nutrition is one of 18 technical guidance documents intended to provide a shared understanding of key concepts and best practices for designing and implementing Feed the Future programs under the Global Food Security Strategy. It is meant to helps missions design new and follow-on integrated programming that incorporates nutrition objectives and technical approaches to optimize nutrition outcomes.
Anemia Toolkit
This Cochrane review assessed the diagnostic accuracy of ferritin concentrations (serum or plasma) for detecting iron deficiency and risk of iron overload in primary and secondary iron‐loading syndromes.
Anemia Toolkit
This report documents the results of the 2018 evaluation of food fortification on the nutritional status of children aged 6–59 months and women of childbearing age and compares it to similar results in the 2010 nutrition survey.
Anemia Toolkit
This report on the national nutrition and micronutrient survey in Jordan, done in 2019, documents the status of anemia and micronutrient deficiencies of iron, vitamin A, zinc, folate, vitamin B12, and vitamin D in children 6–59 months of age; school children 6–12 years; non-pregnant women 15–49 years of age; and pregnant women.
Anemia Toolkit
This study uses data from national cross-sectional survey conducted in Ghana in 2017 to examine how multiple World Health Organization-recommended complementary feeding indicators relate to anemia and the micronutrient status of children aged 6–23 months.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Knowledge, Practice and Coverage (KPC) survey tool is designed to be used for rapid small-population household surveys for integrated programs that are linked to communities. It is a flexible tool that allows for surveys to be tailored to various technical areas and combination of areas, while maintaining standards for collection of information for specific interventions.
Anemia Toolkit
This study reviews the results of a three-arm, parallel-group, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controled weekly iron and folic acid supplementation efficacy trial among Malaysian women aged 18–45 years, who were randomly assigned to three treatment groups—60 mg Fe as ferrous fumarate and either 0 mg, 0.4 mg, or 2.8 mg of folic acid, to be consumed once weekly for 16 weeks, followed by a four-week washout period.
Anemia Toolkit
This study seeks to understand the role of knowledge, attitudes, and practices as a risk factor of anaemia and linear growth problem among adolescent girls in Indonesia.
Anemia Toolkit
The paper identifies 18 low- and middle-income countries with the highest and most immediate potential for large-scale wheat flour and/or rice fortification in terms of health and human capital impact and economic benefit.
Anemia Toolkit
This report maps geospatial estimates of anemia prevalence between 2000–2018 in women of reproductive age (15–49 years) across 82 low- and middle-income countries and aggregates results to policy-relevant administrative and national levels