Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The article discusses adolescent nutrition and outlines three critical knowledge gaps: micronutrient and macronutrient supplements, food system interventions, and nutrition programs combined with delayed pregnancy interventions. The authors conclude that these three areas offer crucial opportunities for improving adolescent health and well-being.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This cross-sectional study explored the nutritional status of Nepalese male and female adolescents (ages 10 to 19) from 13 districts in the three ecological regions of Nepal. Data was disaggregated by age, gender, geographic region, residence, religion, socioeconomic status, sanitation and hygiene indicators, and some food consumption patterns.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Nepal's Multi-sector Nutrition Plan for 2013-2017 focused on reducing maternal and child under-nutrition. This document discusses interventions for adolescents, including adolescent girls parenting education integrated with an early childhood development and literacy package, weekly IFA supplementation, a life skills initiative, school meals, and capacity building for providers working with adolescents.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Nepal's Multi-sector Nutrition Plan II for 2018-2022 builds on the achievements of Multi-sector Nutrition Plan I (2013-2017) to improve maternal, adolescent and child nutrition by scaling up nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions and creating an enabling environment for nutrition. This document describes more recent adolescent nutrition-specific interventions.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This article discusses delivery platforms and strategies for nutrition interventions for adolescent girls and young women in LMICs. The authors propose packages of preventive care and management that feature nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions to address adolescent undernutrition, overnutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The National Nutrition Program 2016-2020 (NNP II) of Ethiopia includes a focus on adolescent nutrition. One of five key targets of NNP II is to reduce the prevalence of anemia in adolescent girls from 30 percent to 15 percent. The document also describes other adolescent nutrition initiatives, including the provision of nutrition services and counseling, micronutrients, SBCC, and iodized salt.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This document contains answers to 28 common questions about weekly iron and folic acid supplements (WIFAS). The information is organized into the following categories: overview of WIFAS, WIFAS and anemia, the benefits of WIFAS, safety considerations, WIFAS and reproductive health, and WHO-recommended formulation.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The Ghana Adolescent Health Service Policy and Strategy 2016-2020 focuses on strategies to promote, prevent, and manage the health and development of Ghanaian adolescents. It provides a framework for health service provision and other health-related interventions for adolescents that can be implemented to support progress toward achieving health sector goals for adolescents.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda provides an overarching approach for addressing the causes of food and nutrition insecurity. The agenda incorporates adolescent nutrition, including self-care to prevent and treat nutritional disorders, counseling, and operations research to be conducted by the ministries of public health and education.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The EAT-Lancet Commission created a global benchmark diet capable of both sustaining health and protecting the environment, but did not examine the diet’s affordability. This analysis strives to understand the diet’s cost around the world by comparing food price and household income data from 159 countries. Findings show that for 1.58 billion people worldwide, the benchmark diet is too expensive for daily incomes to support.