Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The high frequency of unhealthy commercial food and beverage consumption during the complementary feeding period requires early interventions to increase caregiver awareness of the risks; promote increased breastfeeding; and encourage consumption of affordable, nutritious, and locally available foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This series highlights the multi-faceted strategies used by commercial formula manufacturers to target parents, health care professionals, and policymakers. Lobbying efforts often compound practices that discourage governments from strengthening breastfeeding protection laws and challenging food standard regulations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
These videos introduce Alive & Thrive’s adolescent nutrition intervention, including interviews with girls, school teachers and administrators, health extension workers, government officials, and project staff. The videos are available in Amharic with English subtitles.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Government of Bangladesh’s new module for growth monitoring and promotion supports health workers’ service provision and engagement with caregivers. The data dashboard helps frontline managers and supervisors monitor the growth of an individual child, facilitates population-level tracking, and supports more accurate diagnoses and informed policymaking.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This report reviews literature for six priority research areas; describes current knowledge, evidence gaps, and lessons learned from research across health-related fields; and provides a global research agenda to support nutrition for children and adolescents.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This literature review synthesizes information about the current integration of immunization and primary health care services in low- and middle-income countries. Some facilities have also integrated nutrition services into reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health or immunization services. While integration increases efficiency, opportunities to prevent disease and uptake of services, staff skills, financing, and drug supplies can pose challenges.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This evaluation found improved coverage of maternal nutrition topics among women in Ethiopia who attended antenatal care visits and high levels of health worker satisfaction with the intervention package. Facilities could better utilize home visits and engage husbands and other household members to support pregnant women.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Researchers found a significant association between height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores and fermented milk consumption in Zambia. Authors call for greater mapping and promotion of traditionally fermented foods and more research to better understand associated health benefits.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This research article explores how behavior change communication intervention in India increased adequate dietary diversity and knowledge and awareness of complementary feeding.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project examined the state of existing policies on actions that address many types of malnutrition (including overweight and obesity in addition to undernutrition) in 29 countries. The countries selected were those listed as high priority for maternal and child health and nutrition by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2017. SPRING reviewed policy documents related to nutrition, noncommunicable disease prevention, and food security.