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On December 17, 2019, USAID Advancing Nutrition launched a new country office in Mozambique.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyz Republic's public communications contest, "Breastfeeding is the Best Start," engaged community members to promote positive breastfeeding messages.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This article summarizes recommendations from the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) on nutrition issues for adolescent and young women before, during, and after pregnancy. The recommendations aim to create a global framework for action to improve the nutritional care and support of adolescent girls and women through the prepregnancy, pregnancy, postpregnancy, and interpregnancy stages of life.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This is the pilot version of a guidance note on adolescent participation in program monitoring and evaluation (APM&E). The guidance note aims to help UNICEF staff and partners to understand how adolescents can be involved in monitoring and evaluation activities, issues to consider when designing and implementing APM&E activities, and tools and resources to support APM&E. This document may be relevant for monitoring and evaluating adolescent nutrition programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Although the World Health Organization has provided comprehensive guidance that promotes continued breastfeeding during COVID-19, this article argues countries that have imposed separation and discouraged or prohibited breastfeeding or provision of expressed breastmilk fail to acknowledge the health and psychological impacts of separation.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have an indirect, yet severe and lasting, effect on maternal and child nutrition. Weakened and overwhelmed health systems can mean reduced access to and utilization of nutrition services. Added stress on households can create additional challenges to practice recommended nutrition actions in the critical first 1,000 days—from the start of a woman’s pregnancy through her child’s second birthday.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This short guide includes important considerations, messaging, and resources to support country programs in adapting nutrition Social and Behavior Change (SBC) programming in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19.
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Good nutrition during the first 1,000 days, from pregnancy until a child’s second birthday, is crucial for optimal child health and long-term development. As COVID-19 shuts down countries and misinformation spreads, it is imperative that sound research drives policy decisions and counters false information that threatens breastfeeding. To address these challenges, USAID Advancing Nutrition and UNICEF will co-lead a communications working group dedicated to translating findings from emerging and evolving research about infant feeding during the first 1,000 days.
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The COVID-19 crisis is creating shocks across multiple sectors and systems that are essential to improving and safeguarding nutrition. USAID's Guiding Principles and Recommendations for Nutrition in the Context of COVID-19 summarized the likely impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on nutrition and proposed guiding principles for priority actions during the response and recovery phases.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Professionals who missed Nutrition 2019 in Baltimore, MD, USA, or who would like to find the materials from a session they attended, can find them on the American Society for Nutrition website, where select session recordings are available for free.