Resources
Alphabetical list of resources
Resources appear alphabetically by title.
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2010 Global Hunger Index
Authoring organization(s): International Food Policy Research Institue
Published: 2010
Summary: This document is an annual publication that records the state of global, regional, and national hunger.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
2011 Hunger Report
Authoring organization(s): Bread for the World
Published: 2010
Summary: This report covers the role of the United States in mobilizing global commitments to increase investments in agriculture, food security, and nutrition in developing countries.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Achieving Nutritional Impact and Food Security through Agriculture
Authoring organization(s): IYCN
Published: 2011
Summary: This four-page fact sheet summarizes ways that agriculture projects can maximize nutrition and food security of women, children, and other vulnerable groups. It offers examples of what works and what does not and recommends design strategies that can increase nutritional benefits.
Topic(s): Food security, general nutrition
Type(s): Fact sheet
Region: Global
“Act Now!” Campaign
in
Zambia
Authoring organization(s): LINKAGES—Zambia
Published: 2004–2005
Summary: These brochures, created as part of the LINKAGES “Act Now” Campaign in Zambia, offer standardized messages on infant feeding and HIV for a variety of audiences, including mothers, youth, and health workers. Topics include prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, HIV testing and counseling, and optimal infant and young child feeding behaviors.
Booklet:
- All in One: Antenatal, Postnatal, and Child Health
- PMTCT of HIV: A Behavior Change Communication Guide for Health Workers
- Protect Your Baby from HIV
Brochure:
- Counseling and HIV Testing
- Exclusive Breastfeeding is Best
- Leaders in the Frontline Against HIV/AIDS
- Young and Planning For Your Future
Poster:
Topic(s): Behavior change communication, breastfeeding, infant feeding and HIV, maternal nutrition
Type(s): Booklet, brochure, poster
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
An Activity-Based Cost Analysis of the Honduras Community-Based Integrated Child Care Program (Atención Integral a la Niñez-Comunitaria [AIN-C])
Author(s): Fiedler J, Villalobos C, De Mattos AC
Authoring organization(s): The World Bank
Published: 2003
Summary: This document reports on a cost-effectiveness analysis of the Honduras AIN-C Program, a preventive health and nutrition program of the Honduras Ministry of Health.
Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Latin America
The African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND)
Author(s): Oniang’o R
Authoring organization(s): Rural Outreach Program
Published: 2009
Summary: The AJFAND is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal with a global reputation published in Kenya by the Rural Outreach Program in Nairobi. The publishing program covers a wide range of scientific and development disciplines, including agriculture, food, nutrition, environmental management, and sustainable development-related information.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal
Region: Global
Anemia Prevention and Control: What Works. Parts 1 (Program Guidance) and 2 (Tools and Resources)
Author(s): Galloway R
Authoring organization(s): US Agency for International Development, World Bank, United Nations Children’s Fund, World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Micronutrient Initiative
Published: 2003
Summary: Part 1 of this document gives background information on the prevalence and causes of anemia by region, and discusses program approaches and good practices through several case studies of successful programs and other examples. Part 2 provides tools and resources for anemia control programs.
- Anemia Prevention and Control: What Works Part 1 (Program Guidance)
- Anemia Prevention and Control: What Works Part 2 (Tools and Resources)
Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Booklet
Region: Global
Antenatal Supplementation With Folic Acid + Iron + Zinc Improves Linear Growth and Reduces Peripheral Adiposity in School-age Children in Rural Nepal
Author(s): Stewart CP, Christian P, LeClerq SC, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: This study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in July 2009, examines the outcomes in 6- to 8-year-old children who participated in a previous trial that provided daily supplementation of micronutrients to pregnant women.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Asia
Anthropometric Indicators Measurement Guide
Author(s): Cogill B
Authoring organization(s): Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA)
Published: 2003
Summary: This revised guide provides information on the anthropometric impact indicators and the annual monitoring indicators for maternal and child health/child survival and income-related activities. The focus is on the collection and reporting of indicators to improve program management and document progress toward the achievement of results.
Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Assessing the Impact of the Introduction of the World Health Organization Growth Standards and Weight-for-Height Z-score Criterion on the Response to Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition: Secondary Data Analysis
Author(s): Isanaka S, Villamor E, Shepherd S, Grais RF
Published: 2009
Summary: This article, published in Pediatrics, revealed how program enrollment and infant health outcomes would have changed if the 2006 World Health Organization growth standards had been used to identify severely acutely malnourished children in a Médecins Sans Frontières feeding program in Niger.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Africa
Associations Between Breast Milk Viral Load, Mastitis, Exclusive Breast-Feeding, and Postnatal Transmission of HIV
Author(s): Lunney KM, Iliff P, Mutasa K, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This study, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, examines the mechanism by which exclusive breastfeeding protects against postnatal mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: Revised and Updated Expansion and Integration
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund
Published: 2006
Summary: Part I of this document gives background information on the prevalence and causes of anemia by region, and discusses program approaches and good practices through several case studies of successful programs and other examples. Part II provides tools and resources for anemia control programs. This links to the preliminary version for country implementation.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding
Type(s): Booklet
Region: Global
Bangladesh communications tools: micronutrient powders for improved infant and young child feeding practices
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: IYCN designed this collection of Bengali-language communications tools, including take-home posters and product labels, for use in CARE’s Window of Opportunity program in Bangladesh. Community workers and mothers use the materials to promote improved infant and young child feeding behaviors in conjuction with the use of micronutrient powders to address anemia.
- Bangladesh flyer 1
- Bangladesh flyer 2
- Bangladesh flyer 3
- Bangladesh festoon
- Bangladesh package insert
Topic(s): General nutrition, Multi-language, Behavior change communication
Type(s): Job aids
Region: Asia
The basics: planning for formative research for infant and young child feeding practices
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This guide is intended to assist researchers, who are already familiar with formative research methods, in conducting formative assessments for infant and young child feeding programs. It offers a brief orientation to infant and young child feeding; describes major formative research methods and techniques that can be applied to nutrition; outlines a process for determining the appropriate formative research approach; and provides guidance for analyzing the information collected. The document also includes examples of formative research tools and plans and offers suggestions for analytical tools and formats.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, complementary feeding
Type(s): Brief
Region: Global
Behavior change interventions and child nutritional status: evidence from the promotion of improved complementary feeding practices
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This literature review analyzes behavior change interventions aiming to improve complementary feeding practices and children’s nutritional status and provides recommendations for designing and implementing these interventions.
Topic(s): Complementary feeding
Type(s): Literature review
Region: Global
Beyond Survival: Integrated Delivery Care Practices for Long-Term Maternal and Infant Nutrition, Health and Development
Author(s): Chaparro C, Lutter C
Authoring organization(s): Pan American Health Organization
Published: 2007
Summary: This document discusses nutrition and health interventions in the immediate postpartum/natal period: delayed cord clamping to increase stores of iron and other micronutrients in the newborn, skin-to-skin contact to regulate newborn temperature, and initiation of breastfeeding within one hour after delivery. It also includes a discussion of integration of newborn care into existing maternal and child health services.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Breastfeeding and the risk of malaria in children born to HIV-infected and uninfected mothers in rural Uganda
Author(s): Vora N, Homsy J, Kakuru A, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This article from the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome reviews the effect of breastfeeding on malaria risk.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Burkina Faso: National Nutrition Policy
Authoring organization(s): Ministere de la Sante et al.
Published: 2007
Summary: The national nutrition policy of Burkina Faso was produced by the Ministry of Health and is accompanied by guides on infant and young child nutrition and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
French:
- Politique Nationale de Nutrition
- Directives nationales pour la mise en oeuvre du programme national de prevention de la transmission mere enfant du VIH
- Guide Practique pour une Alimentation Optimale du Nourrisson et du Jeune Enfant
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Policy document, practical guide
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Bushes that grow are the future forest: using radio to improve infant and young child feeding in Zambia
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This document describes IYCN’s experience developing Bushes that Grow Are the Future Forest, a radio series on infant and young child feeding. Lessons learned by IYCN can help other nutrition programs with limited time and resources to develop successful radio programs aiming to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition. The document distills the development process into key steps and offers insights on replicating the process in a variety of settings.
Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Tool
Region: Global
Call for Support for Appropriate Infant and Young Child Feeding in Haiti
Authoring organization(s): United Nations Children’s Fund, World Health Organization, World Food Programme
Published: 2010
Summary: UNICEF, WHO, and WFP call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in Haiti and caution about unnecessary and potentially harmful donations and use of breast-milk substitutes.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and emergencies
Type(s): Joint statement
Region: Caribbean
Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week in Lesotho
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2010
Summary: This is a short video documenting a special event celebrating World Breastfeeding Week in August 2009. The IYCN Project collaborated with the Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and other partners to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months after birth, and to launch demonstration gardens to grow nutritious foods for complementary feeding after six months.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and general nutrition
Type(s): Video
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Challenging Assumptions: Breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS
Authoring organization(s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
Published: 2008
Summary: This policy brief discusses the benefits of breastfeeding in light of the risk of perinatal HIV transmission.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Newsletter
Region: Global
Combating malnutrition: what can be done?
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This brief describes prevalent forms of undernutrition, offers effective approaches for preventing malnutrition, and provides cost estimates for implementing each approach.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Brief
Region: Global
Community Nutrition: A Handbook for Health and Development Workers
Author(s): Burgess A, Bijlsma M, Ismael C
Published: 2009
Summary: The book covers nutrients and food, feeding the family, and the causes and diagnosis and control of malnutrition. Particular attention is given to the emerging challenge of chronic conditions and to the links between nutrition and HIV.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Handbook
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Community theater for improved nutrition: a guide for program managers and theater groups
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This guide offers recommendations for program managers and community theater groups to integrate maternal, infant, and young child nutrition content into existing community theater activities.
Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Guide
Region: Global
Community-Level Micronutrient Fortification of School Lunch Meals Improved Vitamin A, Folate, and Iron Status of Schoolchildren in Himalayan Villages of India
Author(s): Osei AK, Rosenberg IH, Houser RF, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This article, published in The Journal of Nutrition, assessed the effectiveness of micronutrient fortification of meals cooked and fortified at school on school children in Himalayan villages of India.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Asia
Complementary feeding messages that target cultural barriers enhance both the use of lipid-based supplements and underlying feeding practices to improve infant diets in rural Zimbabwe
Author(s): Paul KH, Muti M, Chasekwa B, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This study, published in Maternal and Child Nutrition, examined the impact of culturally appropriate feeding messages on improving complementary feeding with and without a lipid-based nutrient supplement.
Topic: Complementary feeding
Type: Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Comprehensive Framework for Action
Authoring organization(s): High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis
Published: 2008
Summary: The Comprehensive Framework offers a six-point plan for action to address the global food security crisis and provides a range of options for activities to implement to improve the situation.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Consolidated Report of Six-Country Review of Breastfeeding Programmes
Authoring organization(s): United Nations Children’s Fund and the Academy for Educational Development
Published: 2010
Summary: This report documents the factors that influence breastfeeding support, promotion, and protection program outcomes; general lessons learned from the experience in six countries; and recommendations for future programming. It includes detailed individual case studies from countries chosen to represent a range of regions and diverse scenarios in terms of breastfeeding programming efforts and outcomes: Bangladesh, Benin, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Uzbekistan.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Côte d’Ivoire Infant and Young Child Nutrition Counseling Materials
Authoring organization(s): PATH, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Published: 2006, 2008
Summary: These materials include a counseling flip chart and take-home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.
English:
- Clinical Algorithm: Helping HIV-Positive Mothers Decide When to Stop Breastfeeding—Infant Age: 6–12 Months
- Clinical Algorithm: Helping HIV-Positive Mothers Decide When to Stop Breastfeeding—Infant Age: 12 Months and Older
- Key Objectives of Infant Feeding Counseling and Support in PMTCT Programs
French:
- Clinical Algorithm: Helping HIV-Positive Mothers Decide When to Stop Breastfeeding—Infant Age: 6–12 Months
- Clinical Algorithm: Helping HIV-Positive Mothers Decide When to Stop Breastfeeding—Infant Age: 12 Months and Older
- Counseling Flip Chart (Front)
- Counseling Flip Chart (Reverse)
- Exclusive Breastfeeding Brochure
- How to Express Breastmilk Brochure
- Key Objectives of Infant Feeding Counseling and Support in PMTCT Programs
- Replacement Feeding Brochure
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Job aids, brochures, technical report
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Côte d’Ivoire: National Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Policy
Authoring organization(s): République de Côte d’Ivoire, Ministere d’Etat, Ministere de la Sante et de la Population
Published: 2003
Summary: The national prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV policy for Côte d’Ivoire was produced by the Ministry of State and the Ministry of Health and Population.
French:
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Policy document
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Counseling Supervision Checklist and Guidelines
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This tool for health worker supervisors measures health workers’ knowledge and records their behaviors during counseling sessions. Periodic use of the checklist can help programs identify gaps, implement solutions, and measure changes over time.
Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Tool
Region: Global
Counseling Tool on
Infant Feeding Options for PMTCT Sites
Authoring organization(s): LINKAGES—Ethiopia
Summary: These counseling cards are for use by health professionals at prevention of mother-to-child transmission sites in counseling HIV-positive mothers on recommended infant feeding options that, if followed correctly, will help the baby grow well, remain HIV negative, and stay healthy.
Topic(s): Behavior change communication, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Counseling tool
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country brief: Building a strong foundation for nutrition programming in Nigeria
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This country brief summarizes IYCN’s activities aiming to reduce maternal and child malnutrition and improve HIV-free survival of infants and young children in Nigeria.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Country brief series
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country brief: A multisectoral approach to preventing malnutrition of mothers and children in Lesotho
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This country brief summarizes IYCN’s activities aiming to improve nutrition of mothers, infants, and young children, with a focus on those affected by HIV.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Country brief series
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country brief: Preventing malnutrition of mothers and children in Zambia
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This country brief provides an overview of IYCN’s activities to strengthen policies and programs to improve the nutrition of mothers and children younger than 2 years of age in Zambia.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Country brief series
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country brief: Strengthening maternal nutrition policies and programs in Madagascar
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This country brief provides an overview of IYCN’s efforts to strengthen programs that address the high rate of malnutrition among mothers and their young children.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Country brief series
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country-specific Approaches for Infant Feeding and HIV Activities
Authoring organization(s): Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2009
Summary: This fact sheet summarizes IYCN’s approach to designing and implementing infant feeding and HIV activities.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Fact sheet
Region: Global
Designing by Dialogue: A Program Planner’s Guide to Consultative Research for Improving Young Child Feeding
Author(s): Dickin K, Griffiths M, Piwoz E
Authoring organization(s): Health and Human Resources Analysis in Africa and Support for Analysis and Research in Africa Projects/Academy for Educational Development (AED) and the Manoff Group
Published: 1997
Summary: This manual gives program managers tools to design, carry out, and analyze the results of formative, consultative research and to use those results to design effective programs to improve infant and young child feeding. The manual covers a number of different methodologies, including recipe trials and trials of improved practices (TIPS).
Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Reference manual
Region: Global
Diarrheal Disease: Solutions to Defeat a Global Killer
Authoring organization(s): PATH
Published: 2009
Summary: This report from PATH highlights the broad array of lifesaving prevention and treatment solutions for addressing diarrheal disease in the developing world. Diarrheal Disease: Solutions to Defeat a Global Killer presents scientific evidence to support strategies to scale up use of interventions including safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene, breastfeeding and optimal complementary feeding, rotavirus vaccines, zinc treatment, and oral rehydration therapy/oral rehydration solution. Additionally, the report features case studies from several organizations making a real impact with on-the-ground programs that bring these tools to the communities that need them most.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Dietary Diversity as a Measure of the Micronutrient Adequacy of Women’s Diets in Resource-Poor Areas: Results from Five Countries
Authoring organization(s): Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II (FANTA) Project
Published: 2009
Summary: To respond to the need for simple indicators to assess the quality of women’s diets, FANTA formed the Women’s Dietary Diversity Project (WDDP) in 2006. With funding through the United States Agency for International Development, the WDDP analyzed data sets from five countries for this report: Bangladesh (rural), Burkina Faso (urban), Mali (urban), Mozambique (rural), and the Philippines (urban/peri-urban).
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Differential Effects of Early Weaning for HIV-Free Survival of Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers by Severity of Maternal Disease
Author(s): Kuhn L, Aldrovandi GM, Sinkala M, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: This study, published in PLoS One, compares HIV-positive mothers who stopped breastfeeding at four months with those who breastfed for longer to determine if there was difference in HIV-free survival.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Directions in Global Health
Authoring organization(s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
Published: 2008, 2010
Summary: The two-page spread on IYCN in PATH’s May 2008 edition of Directions in Global Health describes the project’s latest work with early interventions to strengthen outcomes with mothers and children.
The May 2010 issue of Directions in Global Health features PATH’s work to improve maternal and newborn health around the world. Articles include the Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project’s efforts to improve nutrition for mothers and children, innovative technologies to save newborns, and methods to make childbirth safer.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Newsletter
Region: Global
Early Weaning of HIV-Exposed Uninfected Infants and Risk of Serious Gastroenteritis: Findings from Two Perinatal HIV Prevention Trials in Kampala, Uganda
Author(s): Onyango-Makumbi C, Bagenda D, Mwatha A, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: This article, published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, assesses serious gastroenteritis risk and mortality associated with early cessation of breastfeeding in infants enrolled in two prevention of maternal-to-child transmission of HIV trials in Uganda.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Effect of a Point-of-Use Water Treatment and Safe Water Storage Intervention on Diarrhea in Infants of HIV-Infected Mothers
Author(s): Harris JR, Greene SK, Thomas TK, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: This article, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, documents further investigation into the result of the Kisumu Breastfeeding Study, in which infants of HIV-infected mothers who received antiretroviral therapy experienced high rates of diarrhea at weaning. To address this problem, mothers in the study were given safe water storage vessels, hygiene education, and bleach for household water treatment. The authors compared the incidence of diarrhea in infants enrolled before and after implementation of the intervention.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Effect of an Improved Local Ingredient-based Complementary Food Fortified or Not with Iron and Selected Multiple Micronutrients on Hb Concentrations
Author(s): Ouedraogo HZ, Traore T, Zeba AN
Published: 2010
Summary: This study evaluated the impact of processing a nutritious local ingredient-based gruel to reduce phytate content and multiple micronutrient fortification on hemoglobin concentrations of young children.
Topic(s): Complementary feeding
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Effect of Preparation Method on Viscosity and Energy Density of Fortified Humanitarian Food-Aid Commodities
Author(s): Black CT, Pahulu HF, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: This International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition article explores the relationship between food preparation method and the viscosity and energy density of complementary foods prepared from fortified foods distributed through food aid programs.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Effect of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Strategy on Childhood Mortality and Nutrition in Rural Area in Bangladesh: A Cluster Randomized Trial
Author(s): Arifeen SE, Hoque DM, Akter T, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: In this article, published in the Lancet in August 2009, investigators evaluated the impact of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy on health worker skills and support, care-seeking practices, growth, and mortality in children under five in rural Bangladesh.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Asia
Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention on Complementary Feeding Practices and Growth in Rural China: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Author(s): Shi L, Zhang J, Wang Y, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This study, published in Public Health Nutrition, evaluated an educational intervention aimed at improving complementary feeding practices and child nutrition.
Topic(s): Complementary feeding
Types(s): Journal article
Region: Asia
Effectiveness of zinc supplementation plus oral rehydration salts for diarrhoea in infants aged less than 6 months in Haryana state, India
Author(s): Mazumder S, Taneja S, Bhandari N, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, reveals the results of a study on the effectiveness of zinc supplements in combination with oral rehydration salts and caregiver education in treating diarrhea and preventing acute lower respiratory infections among infants younger than 6 months.
Topic: General nutrition
Type: Journal Article
Region: Asia
Elevations in Mortality Associated with Weaning Persist into the Second Year of Life among Uninfected Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers
Author(s): Kuhn L, Sinkala M, Semrau K, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This study aimed to identify whether there was an age at which weaning could safely be recommended to HIV-infected mothers of uninfected infants.
Topic(s): HIV and infant feeding
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Eliminating Vertical Transmission, Right Here, Right Now
Author(s): Abrams EJ
Authoring organization(s): International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs, Harlem Hospital Center, Columbia University
Published: 2010
Summary: A presentation by Elaine Abrams given during a plenary session at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, on the issues related to eliminating vertical transmission in women and children.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Presentation
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Empowering Communities to Respond to HIV/AIDS—Ndola Demonstration Project on Maternal and Child Health, Operations Research Final Report
Authoring organization(s): LINKAGES Project
Published: 2004
Summary: This final report from the LINKAGES Project documents work with the Ndola District Health Management Team to develop the NDP to test the operational feasibility of an integrated mother-to-child transmission risk-reduction approach linked to antenatal care.
Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Engaging grandmothers to improve nutrition: a training manual and guide for dialogue group mentors
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: These manuals are designed for training grandmothers to serve as dialogue group mentors. They offer information and techniques for facilitating discussions on family care and maternal and child nutrition.
- Engaging grandmothers to improve nutrition: a training manual for dialogue group mentors
- Engaging grandmothers to improve nutrition: guide for dialogue group mentors
Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Training materials
Region: Global
Engaging Grandmothers and Men in Infant and Young Child Feeding and Maternal Nutrition: Report of a formative assessment in Eastern and Western Kenya
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: The purpose of this formative assessment was to document infant and young child feeding and maternal dietary practices, and to inform the design of culturally relevant interventions for engaging men and grandmothers to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition in Eastern and Western Provinces.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Formative assessment
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Engaging Men to Increase Support for Optimal Infant Feeding in Western Kenya
Authoring organization(s): IYCN and AIDS, Population, and Health Integrated Assistance (APHIA) II Western Program
Published: 2010
Summary: This handout is based on a poster presented by IYCN and APHIA II Western at the 5th Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposium. It describes a pilot activity that aimed to integrate infant and young child nutrition into community-level male involvement activities.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Handout
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Essential Health Sector Actions to Improve Maternal Nutrition in Africa
Authoring organization(s): LINKAGES
Published: 2001
Summary: This report identifies essential nutrition and health actions for pregnant and lactating women that contribute to achievement of five nutrition-related outcomes.
Topic: Maternal nutrition
Type: Technical report
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Ethiopia: National Nutrition Strategy
Authoring organization(s): The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Federal Ministry of Health
Published: 2008
Summary: The National Nutrition Strategy was produced by the Federal Ministry of Health and is accompanied by two prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV guideline documents.
- National Nutrition Strategy
- Guidelines for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Ethiopia
- Back Pocket Updates: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): National strategy, guidelines
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Exit Interview Questionnaire and Guidelines
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This tool assists program managers in assessing the quality of counseling services and client satisfaction. The Guidelines provide detailed instructions for using the Questionnaire.
Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Tool
Region: Global
F – I
Facts for Feeding
Authoring organization(s): LINKAGES
Published: 2001–2006
Summary: These seven short leaflets provide general information on topics relevant to infant and young child nutrition for parents and health workers.
English:
- Birth, Initiation of Breastfeeding, and the First Seven Days after Birth
- Breastmilk: A Critical Source of Vitamin A for Infants and Young Children
- Feeding Infants and Young Children During and After Illness
- Feeding Low Birthweight Babies
- Guidelines for Appropriate Complementary Feeding of Breastfed Children 6-24 Months of Age
- Meeting the Iron Requirements of Infants and Young Children
- Recommended Practices to Improve Infant Nutrition during the First Six Months
French:
- Birth, Initiation of Breastfeeding, and the First Seven Days after Birth
- Breastmilk: A Critical Source of Vitamin A for Infants and Young Children
- Guidelines for Appropriate Complementary Feeding of Breastfed Children 6-24 Months of Age
- Recommended Practices to Improve Infant Nutrition during the First Six Months
Spanish:
- Birth, Initiation of Breastfeeding, and the First Seven Days after Birth
- Breastmilk: A Critical Source of Vitamin A for Infants and Young Children
- Guidelines for Appropriate Complementary Feeding of Breastfed Children 6-24 Months of Age
- Recommended Practices to Improve Infant Nutrition during the First Six Months
Portuguese:
- Birth, Initiation of Breastfeeding, and the First Seven Days after Birth
- Breastmilk: A Critical Source of Vitamin A for Infants and Young Children
- Guidelines for Appropriate Complementary Feeding of Breastfed Children 6-24 Months of Age
- Meeting the Iron Requirements of Infants and Young Children
- Recommended Practices to Improve Infant Nutrition during the First Six Months
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, general nutrition, non-English
Type(s): Leaflet
Region: Global
Feed the Future Guide
Authoring organization(s): US Government
Published: 2010
Summary: The Feed the Future Guide describes the strategic approach and implementation structures of Feed the Future, the US global hunger and food security initiative. It is intended to inform partners and stakeholders about the development of Feed the Future and how the principles are translated into actions on the ground.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Guide, website
Region: Global
Formative Assessment of Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices at the Community Level in Zambia
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2010
Summary: Following on the results of the 2007 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, IYCN conducted this formative study to fill gaps in understanding of caregivers’ practices. In particular, the study explores factors that influence a mother’s ability to exclusively breastfeed for the first 6 months of an infant’s life and factors that influence appropriate complementary feeding for children 6 to 23 months of age.
Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Formative research report
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Formative Assessment of Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
Authoring organization(s): IYCN
Published: 2010
Summary: IYCN conducted this formative study in the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja, Nigeria, in early 2010 to examine infant and young child feeding behaviors. Results revealed positive practices and attitudes on which maternal and child health programs can build.
- Formative Assessment of Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Formative research report
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Gap Analysis of Nutrition Coverage in Madagascar
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2009
Summary: This document reveals the results of an analysis of the coverage of nutrition programs in Madagascar.
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Topic(s): General nutrition, non-English
Type(s): Presentation
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Global Food for Thought
Authoring organization(s): The Global Agriculture Development Project
Published: 2009
Summary: Global Food for Thought is a weekly news brief that follows media, research, and policy developments on issues surrounding agricultural development. Briefs provide summaries of and links to articles, reports, events, and publications on issues such as agriculture, hunger, poverty, climate change, development, water, commodities, and agribusiness.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Newsletter
Region: Global
Global Food Security Crisis Website
Authoring organization(s): United Nations
Published: 2009
Summary: This website, produced by the United Nations, contains news, background, country-specific information, events, and resources related to the global food security crisis.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Website
Region: Global
Global Hunger Index
Authoring organization(s): International Food Policy Research Institute
Published: 2010
Summary: This document is an annual publication that records the state of global, regional, and national hunger.
Topic(s): Food security
Type (s): Technical report
Region: Global
Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund
Published: 2003
Summary: This strategy is the result of a comprehensive two-year participatory process. It is based on the evidence of nutrition’s significance in the early months and early years of life, and the crucial role that appropriate infant feeding practices play in achieving optimal health outcomes. The strategy identifies interventions with proven impact and defines the obligations and responsibilities in this regard of governments, international organizations, and other concerned parties.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Booklet
Region: Global
Good nutrition, healthy futures: our solutions for preventing malnutrition of mothers, infants, and young children worldwide
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This brief document summarizes IYCN’s approach to developing cost-effective and locally appropriate solutions for improved maternal, infant, and young child nutrition around the world.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Brief
Region: Global
Guidelines for the Use of Iron Supplements to Prevent and Treat Iron Deficiency Anemia
Author: Stoltzfus R, Dreyfuss M
Authoring organization(s): International Nutritional Anemia Consultative Group, World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund
Published: 1998
Summary: This booklet provides background information on iron deficiency anemia, including cutoffs for anemia and the benefits for controlling anemia, the causes of anemia, a description of interventions to control anemia, guidelines for supplementation for different vulnerable groups, and guidelines for programs.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Booklet
Region: Global
Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding 2010
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 2009
Summary: The new recommendations call for earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for adults and adolescents, the delivery of more patient-friendly antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), and prolonged use of ARVs to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. And, for the first time, WHO recommends that HIV-positive mothers or their infants take ARVs while breastfeeding to prevent transmission. Visit the WHO website to learn more.
- Guidelines on HIV and and infant feeding 2010
- Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Policy document
Region: Global
Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child
Author(s): Dewey K
Authoring organization(s): Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization
Published: 2002
Summary: This document distills information from discussions at several technical meetings and technical documents on complementary feeding. It covers the duration of breastfeeding and the age complementary foods should be introduced; continued breastfeeding during the 6–24 month period; responsive feeding; feeding during and after illness; the safe preparation and storage of complementary foods; the use of micronutrient supplements; and the amounts, types, frequency, and consistency of complementary foods.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, complementary feeding, general nutrition
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Guiding Principles for Feeding Infants and Young Children During Emergencies
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 2004
Summary: The guiding principles have been prepared to help prevent increased morbidity and mortality among infants and young children affected by an emergency. They serve as a basis for action and are intended to clarify that optimal practices for feeding infants and young children during emergencies are essentially the same as those that apply in other, more stable conditions. The document seeks to inform decision makers about key interventions and sustaining optimal infant and young child feeding during emergencies.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, complementary feeding, general nutrition
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Guiding Principles for Feeding Non-Breastfed Children 6–24 Months of Age
Author(s): Dewey K
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 2005
Summary: These guiding principles are based on consensus achieved during an informal meeting of experts held in Geneva in early 2004 and adapted from the Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child. The publication lists the nine guiding principles, with the scientific rationale for each, and gives examples of diets from different parts of the world that can meet energy and nutrient needs of infants and young children after six months of age who are not breastfed. Annexes include information on developing locally appropriate feeding recommendations based on the principles, and on key issues around early breastfeeding cessation for infants and young children of HIV-positive mothers.
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Topic(s): Complementary feeding, general nutrition, non-English
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Haiti Earthquake Technical Note on HIV and Infant Feeding
Authoring organization(s): United Nations Children’s Fund, World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization
Published: 2010
Summary: This technical note aims to provide a summary of the most recent WHO recommendations on HIV and infant feeding and their application to the current emergency in Haiti.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and emergencies
Type(s): Joint statement, technical note
Region: Caribbean
Haiti Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Cards
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2010
Summary: IYCN supported the Government of Haiti to develop this set of nationally-validated infant and young child feeding counseling cards for health workers and community workers. IYCN developed the messages based on formative research and pre-tested the cards to ensure that they are locally appropriate.
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Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Job aids
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Haiti: National Directives for HIV and Nutrition
Authoring organization(s): République d’Haïti, Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population
Published: 2006
Summary: The National Directives for HIV and Nutrition were produced by the Ministry of Public Health and Population.
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Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): National strategy
Region: Caribbean
Haiti Stakeholders’ Workshop Report on HIV and Infant Feeding
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2008
Summary: This report (in French) was the product of a three-day stakeholder’s meeting in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization (WHO) for more than 100 institutions to achieve national consensus on infant feeding in the context of HIV/AIDS and adopt the WHO Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV/AIDS.
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Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV, non-English
Type(s): Report
Region: Caribbean
Heat Treatment of Expressed Breast Milk Is a Feasible Option for Feeding HIV-Exposed, Uninfected Children after 6 Months of Age in Rural Zimbabwe
Author(s): Mbuya NN, Humphrey JH, Majo F, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This article presents the findings of an evaluation in Zimbabwe on the feasibility of HIV-positive mothers heat-treating all breastmilk given to their infants following six months of exclusive breastfeeding.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV and Infant
Feeding Counseling Tools
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 2005, 2008
Summary: These tools have been created to help health workers before, during, and after a counseling session so that they can better support HIV-positive mothers. The set includes counseling cards that describe the counseling process; a reference guide that provides technical and practical details; and an orientation guide that suggests ways for health care managers to train infant feeding counselors on using the cards and guide.
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Topic(s): Behavior change communication, infant feeding and HIV, non-English
Type(s): Counseling cards, reference manual
Region: Global
HIV and Infant Feeding: Framework for Priority Action
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Population Fund, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Published: 2003
Summary: This framework was developed in the context of the World Health Organization’s Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding. The purpose is to recommend key priority actions related to infant feeding and HIV to governments.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
HIV and Infant Feeding: A Guide for Health-Care Managers and Supervisors
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Population Fund, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Published: 2003
Summary: This guide is aimed at helping mid-level managers understand issues and organize services to support all women, and especially HIV-infected women, on infant feeding. The document contains a list of key steps, background information, key resources and references, and extensive annexes.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
HIV and Infant Feeding: Guidelines for Decision-Makers
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Population Fund, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Published: 2003
Summary: The purpose of these guidelines is to provide information on issues related to infant and young child feeding in the context of HIV, and to highlight areas on which policy decisions need to be made.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
HIV and Infant Feeding: New Evidence and Programmatic Experience, Report of a Technical Consultation
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 2007
Summary: This report presents a summary of new findings, conclusions, and recommendations from the HIV and infant feeding Technical Consultation which took place in Geneva in October 2006. This Consultation was organized by WHO on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team on Prevention of HIV Infections in Pregnant Women, Mothers, and their Infants. Topics discussed include the risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding and how to reduce it; the impact of different feeding methods on child survival; implementation of current WHO recommendations and guidance on HIV and infant feeding; early cessation of breastfeeding; implementation of counseling; and feeding options (home-modified milk, heat-treatment of breastmilk).
- HIV and Infant Feeding: New Evidence and Programmatic Experience, Report of a Technical Consultation
Topic(s): General nutrition, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Technical overview
Region: Global
HIV and Infant Feeding Technical Consultation: Consensus Statement
Authoring organization(s): Inter-Agency Task Team on Prevention of HIV Infections in Pregnant Women, Mothers, and Their Infants, World Health Organization
Published: 2006
Summary: This consensus statement is the product of the World Health Organization HIV and Infant Feeding Technical Consultation held on behalf of the Inter-Agency Task Team on Prevention of HIV Infections in Pregnant Women, Mothers, and Their Infants in Geneva, Switzerland, October 25–27, 2006. It outlines new evidence and research on HIV transmission through breastfeeding, new evidence on morbidity and mortality, improving young child infant feeding practices, new program data, and recommendations. Also included below are the reference documents that informed the consensus statement.
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- New Data on the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Their Policy Implications (2001) [Please click through the security screen to access this resource.]
- The Glion Call to Action on Family Planning and HIV/AIDS in Women and Children (2004)
- Call to Action: Towards an HIV-Free and AIDS-Free Generation (2005)
- Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Infants (2004)
- World Health Organization Child and Adolescent Health and Development website
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, infant feeding and HIV, non-English
Type(s): Policy document
Region: Global
HIV and Infant Feeding: Update
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 2007
Summary: This document provides the full list of updated HIV and infant feeding recommendations from the World Health Organization and an explanation of key points. It is based on the Technical Consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Infants, Geneva , 25-27 October 2006.
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Topic(s): General nutrition, infant feeding and HIV, non-English
Type(s): Technical overview
Region: GlobalHIV Transmission through Breastfeeding: A Review of Available Evidence, 2007 Update
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Population Fund, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Published: 2008
Summary: This publication provides the evidence base and rationale for updated recommendations and publications. It presents a summary of the available scientific evidence on the transmission of HIV infection through breastfeeding, including a preface with the newest evidence as the review was going to press.
Topic(s): General nutrition, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Technical review
Region: Global
HIV Vertical Transmission
Study
Author(s): Bland RM, Coovadia HM, et al.
Authoring organization(s): Universityof KwaZulu Natal
Published: 2007
Summary: These journal articles, published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and The Lancet describe the training methods and courses used for the Vertical Transmission Study—a large non-randomized intervention cohort study conducted in South Africa—to investigate postnatal HIV transmission associated with infant feeding modes.
- Breast health problems are rare in both HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women who receive counseling and support for breast-feeding in South Africa
- Infant feeding counseling for HIV-infected and uninfected women: appropriateness of choice and practice
- Mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 infection during exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months of life: an intervention cohort study
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, and Food Security: What We Can Do
Authoring organization(s): The World Bank
Published: 2007
Summary: This document provides guidance to World Bank and other HIV project managers on integrating nutrition support into HIV projects to improve HIV and AIDS outcomes. Sections include nutrition for adults living with HIV, HIV-positive pregnant and lactating women, HIV-affected children 0 to 24 months, and HIV-positive children 0 to 24 months; special support for people living with HIV/AIDS; food security; and food assistance support, including in the emergency setting.
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Topic(s): General nutrition, infant feeding and HIV, non-English
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Household Rice Expenditure and Maternal and Child Nutritional Status in Bangladesh
Author(s): Campbell AA, Pee S, Sun K, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This study sought to characterize the relationship between household expenditures on rice and non-rice foods and maternal and child nutritional status.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Asia
Improved Adherence and Anaemia Cure Rates with Flexible Administration of Micronutrient Sprinkles: a new public health approach to anaemia control
Author(s): Ip H, Hyder SMZ, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: This article in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition examines the effectiveness of daily and flexible Sprinkles dosage.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Improving Child Health and HIV-free Survival: A review of current research on risks and benefits of infant feeding options for HIV-positive moms
Authoring organization(s): IYCN
Published: 2010
Summary: This is a handout of a poster presented at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria in July 2010. The document presents evidence concerning the effect of breastfeeding avoidance and early cessation on child mortality and HIV-free survival in developing countries.
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Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Handout
Region: Global
Improving Health for Families Everywhere: PATH Reaches Mothers, Children, and Communities With Key Innovations for Strong Futures
Authoring organization(s): PATH
Published: 2010
Summary: PATH has worked to improve maternal and child health, nutrition, and family planning in developing countries for more than 30 years. This brochure describes PATH’s integrated approach to reach mothers, children, and communities with key innovations for strong futures.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Brochure
Region: Global
Improving Nutrition: Issues in Management and Capacity Development
Author(s): Heaver R
Authoring organization(s): The World Bank
Published: 2002
Summary: This document discusses issues and good program practices for the design and implementation of community nutrition programs.
Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Inclusion of Fathers in an Intervention to Promote Breastfeeding: Impact on Breastfeeding Practices
Author(s): Susin LR, Giugliani ER
Published: 2008
Summary: This article, published in the Journal of Human Lactation, revealed results of a controlled clinical trial in Brazil on the impact of a hospital-based breastfeeding education program for fathers.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Latin America
India: Guidelines for HIV Care and Treatment in Infants and Children
Authoring organization(s): Indian Academy of Paediatrics, National AIDS Control Organisation, et al.
Published: 2006
Summary: These guidelines are intended to provide guidance to pediatricians in prescribing antiretroviral therapy, as well as on the practical issues regarding care and treatment of HIV in infants and children.
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Guidelines
Region: India
Indicators for Assessing Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Summary: As the culmination of a World Health Organization-led five-year effort to develop and reach consensus on a set of simple, valid, and reliable indicators, this document describes eight core and seven optional indicators that are population-based and can be derived from household survey data, such as the Demographic and Health Surveys and the Knowledge, Practice, and Coverage Surveys.
- Indicators for Assessing Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices—Part 1: Definitions
- Indicators for Assessing Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices—Part 2: Measurement
Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical Report
Region: Global
Infant and Young Child Feeding
Counselling: An Integrated Course
Author(s): Saadeh R, Bland R, Casanovas C, Vallenas C, et al.
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund
Published: 2006
Summary: This course on infant feeding practices covers breastfeeding, HIV and infant feeding, and complementary feeding. It is an integrated version of three existing World Health Organization courses, designed for all health professionals, including lay workers, and for people with limited time for training.
- Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course—Director’s Guide
- Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course—Guidelines for Follow-Up After Training
- Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course—Participant’s Manual
- Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course—Trainer’s Guide
- Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course—Slides
Topic(s): Behavior change communication, breastfeeding, infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Training guide, PowerPoint
Region: GlobalInfant and Young Child Feeding: A Tool for Assessing National Practices, Policies, and Programs
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 2003
Summary: This tool is designed to assist users in assessing the status of infant and young child feeding practices, policies, and programs in their countries. The purpose of such an assessment is to identify strengths and possible weaknesses, with a view to improving the protection, promotion, and support of optimal infant and young child feeding.
Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Infant and Young Child Feeding Update
Author(s): Mukuria A, Kothari MT , Abderrahim N
Authoring organization(s): Macro International for the US Agency for International Development
Published: 2006
Summary: This update provides data on key indicators related to optimal feeding practices for children under five. The update includes a new summary of infant and young child feeding indicators for children 6 to 23 months and reports on Demographic and Health Survey data collected between 1998 and 2004 from 43 countries in five regions around the world: sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa/West Asia/Europe, Central Asia, South/Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, general nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer’s Manual and Participant’s Manual
Authoring organization(s): IYCN Project, APHIA II Western, Society for Women and AIDS in Kenya
Published: 2009
Summary: These manuals were prepared by the IYCN Project for community-level activities to improve infant feeding within the context of HIV, implemented through PATH’s APHIA II Western project by the Society for Women and AIDS in Kenya.
- Infant Feeding and HIV: A guide for training community-based workers and volunteers
- Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant’s manual for community-based workers and volunteers
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Training manuals
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Infant Feeding in Emergencies Module 1
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, LINKAGES Project, International Baby Food Action Network, Emergency Nutrition Network
Published: 2001
Summary: This training module prepares emergency relief staff to safeguard maternal and child health and is appropriate for decision-makers, regional managers, logistics officers, camp administrators, and all those who directly or indirectly support mothers and children in emergencies. A detailed summary and guidance for using the various materials is also provided.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and emergencies
Type(s): Training guide
Region: Global
Infant Feeding in Emergencies Module 2
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, LINKAGES Project, International Baby Food Action Network, Emergency Nutrition Network
Published: 2007
Summary: This training module aims to provide those directly involved with infants and caregivers with the basic knowledge and skills to support safe and appropriate infant and young child feeding. A detailed summary and guidance for using the various materials is also provided.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and emergencies
Type(s): Training guide
Region: Global
Infant Feeding in Emergencies Training Materials
Authoring organization(s): CARE, University Research Co., LLC (URC), and its non-profit affiliate, the Center for Human Services (CHS)
Summary: The instructional planning and training package entitled Preparation of Trainer’s Course: Mother-to-Mother Support Group Methodology, and Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Basics was developed and piloted under the CARE Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) Initiative. The training package provides details for daily activities and the accompanying handouts for a 4.5 day course.
Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: A Community-Focused Approach was developed in collaboration with URC and CHS for use with lower-literacy audiences. It includes an integrated set of 18 counseling cards, an IYCF Counselling Trainer's Guide, and a message booklet.
Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: A Community Focused Approach:
Topic(s): Infant feeding in emergencies
Type(s): Counseling cards, counseling tools, training guide
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Infant Feeding in the
Context of HIV Infection
Authoring organization(s): International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs
Summary: This is an excellent summary of the most recent infant feeding information and data to support new recommendations and strategies.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): PowerPoint
Region: Global
Infant Feeding Programme
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Nigeria
Authoring organization(s): Federal Ministry of Health, World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund
Published: 2005
Summary: These materials include a set of counseling cards produced specifically for Nigeria by the Ministry of Health, in partnership with the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the National Policy on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Nigeria.
- HIV and Infant Feeding Counseling Cards in Nigeria
- National Policy on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Nigeria
Topic(s): Behavior change communication, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Counseling cards, policy document
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: Trainer's Manual and Participant's Manual
Authoring organization(s): IYCN and USAID’s AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance II (APHIA II) Western Program
Published: 2010
Summary: IYCN prepared these manuals for men’s group activities being implemented through the APHIA II Western project led by PATH. Content for these manuals is adapted from several key infant and young child feeding and male engagement publications.
- Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders
- Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Training manual
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Infant and young child feeding practices monitoring tool and guide
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This tool is designed to help programs monitor progress in achieving key behaviors related to infant and young child feeding. The tool is designed for community workers to track individual behaviors during each counseling session or contact point with a caregiver, thereby providing a record of progress toward reaching an optimal mix of practices for the child. The guidance provides step-by-step instructions for using the tool in different program settings.
Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Tool
Region: GlobalInfant & Young Child Nutrition Project: 2010 Annual Report
Authoring organization(s): IYCN
Published: 2011
Summary: This report summarizes the IYCN Project’s activities in 2010 and includes project goals, key accomplishments, and country activities.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Annual report
Region: Global
IYCN Fact Sheet
Authoring organization(s): Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2009
Summary: This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project.
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Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Fact sheet
Region: Global
IYCN Project achievements and lessons learned in Zambia: July 2008–March 2011
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This presentation shows results, lessons learned, and tools from the IYCN Project’s three years of experience implementing activities to prevent malnutrition of mothers and children in Zambia.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Presentation
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
IYCN Project results and lessons learned in Nigeria: September 2009–October 2011
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This PowerPoint presentation, from IYCN’s end-of-project event in Nigeria on October 27, 2011, summarizes results and lessons learned from the project’s aim to prevent malnutrition of mothers and children in Nigeria.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Presentation
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
IYCN social and behavior change communication approach
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This document summarizes IYCN’s approach for developing, implementing, and monitoring social and behavior change communication activities in countries where the project has worked.
Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Brief
Region: Global
Integrated Prevention
of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Support for Infant Feeding
Authoring organization(s): LINKAGES, United Nations Children’s Fund, Academy for Educational Development
Published: 2004
Summary: This course, developed by the LINKAGES Project, provides participants with a basic understanding of HIV and AIDS facts and prevention, mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) mechanisms, current MTCT risk-reduction interventions, and infant feeding in the context of HIV and AIDS.
- Integrated Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Support for Infant Feeding: Community Motivators Course
- Integrated Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Support for Infant Feeding: Health Providers Course
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Training guide
Region: Sub-Saharan AfricaIntegrating Household Nutrition and Food Security Objectives into Proposed Agriculture Projects: Illustrative Guidance
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This guidance can help agriculture project designers build nutrition and food security objectives into their projects rather than leave positive impacts to chance. By following this guidance during the initial planning stages, project designers can enhance the nutritional impact and food security of vulnerable groups.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Tool
Region: Global
International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 1981
Summary: This is the original International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes adopted by the World Health Organization in 1981.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding
Type(s): Policy document
Region: Global
Investing in Nutrition: Let's Grow Together
Authoring organization(s): World Bank
Published: 2010
Summary: Investing in Nutrition: Let's Grow Together is intended to inspire action among country leaders, development partners, and stakeholders to accelerate their investment in nutrition, particularly for those interventions reaching mothers and children during the window of opportunity from minus nine months (pregnancy) through the first two years of life.
Investing in Nutrition: Let's Grow Together
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Video
Region: Global
Iron and Folic Acid Supplements and Reduced Early Neonatal Deaths in Indonesia
Author(s): Titaley CR, Dibley MJ, Roberts CL, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This article reveals results of a study on the effect of antenatal care and iron and folic acid supplementation on early neontatal deaths.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Asia
Iron-Fortified Rice Is as Efficacious as Supplemental Iron Drops in Infants and Young Children
Author(s): Beinner M, Velasquez-Melendez G, Pessoa MC, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: The study found that rice fortified with iron-containing Ultra Rice, developed by PATH, was more effective than iron supplement drops at fighting iron deficiency in children aged 6 to 24 months.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Iron Supplementation for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality in Children with HIV
Author(s): Adetifa I, Okomo U
Published: 2009
Summary: This Cochrane review article examined available evidence on the impact of the intervention on health outcomes of HIV-positive children.
Topic(s): General nutrition, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
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Joint Statement on Infant Feeding in Emergencies
Authoring organization(s): Infant Feeding in Emergencies Core Group
Published: 2008
Summary: This document is a joint statement on infant feeding in emergencies worked on and agreed upon by participants at a regional infant feeding in emergencies workshop in Bali in March 2008. This version is based on a joint statement issued by the World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, and the International Federation of Red Cross during the Indonesia earthquake response. It was developed to promote emergency preparedness in the region.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and emergencies
Type(s): Technical document
Region: Global
Kenya Infant Feeding Assessment: Eastern and Western Provinces
Author(s): Israel-Ballard K, Waithaka M, Greiner T
Authoring organization(s): IYCN, PATH
Published: 2009
Summary: This study was conducted in the Eastern and Western Provinces in Kenya in 2008 to assess the experiences of HIV-infected mothers’ and their infants’ during the time they were stopping breastfeeding.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Kenya Infant Feeding Brochures
Authoring organization(s): US Agency for International Development, PATH, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2009
Summary: These two brochures (originally developed by the Government of Kenya, UNICEF, and PATH) are being disseminated to mothers and families through IYCN and APHIA II Western facility and community-based activities. One brochure focuses on infant feeding during the first six months of life and the other focuses on infant feeding after 6 months.
Swahili:
- Mlishe Mtoto Wako Vyema Baada Ya Miezi Sita
- Mnyonyeshe Mtoto Wako Vyema Kutoka Kuzaliwa Hadi Miezi Sita
Topic(s): Complementary feeding, breastfeeding, non-English
Type(s): Brochures
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya Infant Feeding and HIV: Reporting Tools
Authoring organization(s): IYCN Project, Society for Women and AIDS in Kenya (SWAK)
Published: 2009
Summary: This collection of materials includes the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) reporting form to help psychosocial counselors accurately report on their facility-based activities in a standardized way and to provide an opportunity to share successes and challenges they experience; an observation checklist to provide structured feedback to facility-based psychosocial counselors in order to improve their counseling and facilitation skills (the checklist is being used in Kenya by APHIA II Western as part of the supervision activities for counselors trained by EGPAF with support from IYCN); and a SWAK reporting form for SWAK’s community-based workers to report on new infant feeding activities, including individual and group education/counseling topics, referrals provided, and any successes or challenges they experience.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV, Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Reporting tools
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya: National Strategies and Guidelines
Authoring organization(s): Republic of Kenya, Ministry of Health
Published: 2006, 2007, 2008
Summary: Included in the collection of Kenyan national guidelines are guidelines on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, nutrition and HIV/AIDS, and HIV testing and counseling. Also included is the national strategy for infant and young child nutrition.
- Kenyan National Guidelines on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS
- National Guidelines for HIV Testing and Counseling
- National Strategy on Infant and Young Child Nutrition
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Guidelines, national strategy
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Knowledge, Practices, and Coverage Survey 2000+ Modules 2 and 3
Authoring organization(s): Child Survival Technical Support+
Published: 2006
Summary: These documents are two of the 15 modules for Knowledge, Practices, and Coverage (KPC) Survey 2000+. The first, KPC Module 2, contains 14 questions on breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding. The second, KPC Module 3, consists of three sub-modules on growth monitoring, child anthropometry, and maternal anthropometry.
- KPC Module 2: Breastfeeding & Infant and Young Child Feeding
- KPC Module 3: Growth Monitoring and Maternal/Child Anthropometry
Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
The Lancet Series on Child Survival
Author(s): Various
Authoring organization(s): The Lancet
Published: 2003
Summary: This document includes an editorial, two commentaries, and five articles focused on child survival: the prevalence of the problem, where the problem exists and what causes the problem, how we can prevent child deaths through cost-effective interventions, how to address equity gaps, and how to set priorities for programs.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, general nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
The Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition
Author(s): Various
Authoring organization(s): The Lancet
Published: 2008
Summary: This document includes an executive summary and five articles aimed to increase awareness around maternal and child undernutrition and serve as a catalyst for national-level governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the international nutrition community to spur action and stimulate national interest, leadership, and commitment.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, general nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Learning from Large-Scale Community-Based Programmes to Improve Breastfeeding Practices
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Academy for Educational Development, Africa’s Health in 2010
Published: 2008
Summary: Community-based breastfeeding promotion and support is one of the key components of a comprehensive program to improve breastfeeding practices, as outlined in the WHO/UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding. This report shares experiences and lessons from community-based approaches so that others can use the information to strengthen existing programs and design new ones. The paper will be of particular value to individuals who are interested in studying and applying different models and the results and lessons emerging from them and assessing their applicability in a new setting.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Lesotho: Behavior Change Communication and Community Strategy for Family Centered HIV Services
Authoring organization(s): Kingdom of Lesotho
Published: 2006
Summary: This is a behavior change communication strategy created by the Kingdom of Lesotho for family-centered HIV services.
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): National strategy
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Lesotho: Connecting Communities with Health Care Facilities to Prevent Malnutrition
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2010
Summary: This document tells the story of Mabeata, an IYCN trained community health worker, and Adelina, a nurse, who meet monthly at the Litsoeneng Health Centre in Lesotho to make sure children in their community grow well and stay healthy.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Handout
Region: Global
Lesotho: Helping babies grow healthy and strong
Authoring organization(s): Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2008
Summary: This is a success story about a community health worker who practiced exclusive breastfeeding.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Handout
Region: Global
Lesotho Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Materials
Authoring organization(s): IYCN, US Agency for International Development, President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and United Nations Children’s Fund
Published: 2008
Summary: IYCN assisted the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to develop these counseling materials during a nutrition stakeholders’ workshop. The materials include a flip chart and counseling cards for health workers and six take-home brochures for mothers.
Job Aids:
Brochures:
- Eating Well During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
- Exclusive Breastfeeding
- Feeding a Baby After Completing 6 Months
- Feeding Your Baby Infant Formula with a Cup
- Hand Expressing Breast Milk
- Positioning and Attachment for Breastfeeding
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Job aids, brochures
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Lesotho Infant and Young Child Feeding Curriculum and Participant's Manual
Authoring organization(s): Ministry of Health and Social Work, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2009
Summary: This curriculum for health workers is based on WHO and UNICEF’s Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course. Given the urgency of training large numbers of health workers and counsellors, this integrated course has been adapted to respond to the specific needs in Lesotho by training those who care for mothers and children in the basics of good infant and young child feeding. Counselling is an extremely important part of this course, and the course will focuses on practicing using job aids to improve counselling skills.
Curriculum:
- Lesotho Infant and Young Child Feeding Curriculum Part 1
- Lesotho Infant and Young Child Feeding Curriculum Part 2
- Lesotho Infant and Young Child Feeding Curriculum Part 3
- Lesotho Infant and Young Child Feeding Curriculum Part 4
- Lesotho Infant and Young Child Feeding Curriculum Part 5
Participant's manual:
- Lesotho Infant and Young Child Feeding Participant's Manual Part 1
- Lesotho Infant and Young Child Feeding Participant's Manual Part 2
- Lesotho Infant and Young Child Feeding Participant's Manual Part 3
Topic(s): General nutrition, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Curriculum
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Madagascar: National Nutrition Policy and Guidelines
Authoring organization(s): République de Madagascar, Office National de Nutrition et al.
Published: 2004 and 2005
Summary: This collection of national policy and guidelines from Madagascar includes the National Nutrition Policy from 2004 and the National Nutrition Implementation Guidelines from 2005.
French:
- Politique Nationale de Nutrition
- Programme National de Nutrition Communautaire: Manuel Technique d’Execution
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Policy document, guidelines
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Making the Case for Preventing Malnutrition Through Improved Infant Feeding and Management of Childhood Illness
Authoring organization(s): Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2009
Summary: This handout is based on a poster presented by the IYCN Project at the 10th Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CAPGAN) Congress on Diarrhoea & Malnutrition in August 2009, make a case for investing in prevention of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) rather than in the universal introduction of SAM treatment.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Handout
Region: Global
Making the Case for Preventing Malnutrition Through Improved Infant Feeding and Management of Childhood Illness
Authoring organization(s): Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2009
Summary: This poster presented by the IYCN Project at the 10th Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CAPGAN) Congress on Diarrhoea & Malnutrition in August 2009, make a case for investing in prevention of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) rather than in the universal introduction of SAM treatment.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Poster
Region: Global
Malawi: Consulting with Caregivers: Formative Research to Determine the Barriers and Facilitators to Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding in Three Regions of Malawi
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This report and handout summarizes research intended to provide the information necessary to design effective activities to improve infant and young child feeding and nutrition within new or existing programs in the country.
- Report: Consulting with Caregivers: Formative Research to Determine the Barriers and Facilitators to Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding in Three Regions of Malawi
- Handout: Consulting with Caregivers: Formative Research to Determine the Barriers and Facilitators to Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding in Three Regions of Malawi
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Formative research report, handout
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Malawi: Infant and Young Child Nutrition Policy and Guidelines
Authoring organization(s): Republic of Malawi, Ministry of Health and Population
Published: 2003
Summary: This document is separated into two sections for use together. The Infant and Young Child Nutrition Policy portion provides program goals and objectives with policy statements. The second part, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Guidelines, provides guidelines to be used in tandem with the policy.
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Policy document and guidelines
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Maximizing Nutritional Benefits from Agricultural Interventions
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2010
Summary: This PowerPoint, presented at the Global Health Council’s 37th Annual International Conference on Global Health in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2010, discusses the intersection between agriculture and nutrition and describes a nutritional impact assessment tool to help program planners meet the vision of initiatives addressing nutrition, global hunger, and food security.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): PowerPoint
Region: Global
Measuring Childcare Practices: Approaches, Indicators, and Implications for Programs
Author(s): Ruel MT, Arimond M
Authoring organization(s): International Food Policy Research Institute
Published: 2003
Summary: With a strong focus on methodology, the authors of this review bridge a gap between researchers and technical program staff by describing program measurement approaches, problems, and solutions for the assessment of child care practices.
Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Meeting the Global Needs for Nutrients
Authoring organization(s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
Published: 2008
Summary: This document provides an overview of PATH’s work to improve nutrition around the world and highlights project successes in Uganda, Lesotho, and Colombia.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Newsletter
Region: Global
Men as positive agents of change: Findings from a formative assessment
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This document summarizes the results of an assessment that aimed to understand how to engage men in support of healthy maternal dietary and infant and young child feeding practices in Kenya’s Western Province.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Fact sheet
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
A Micronutrient Powder with Low Doses of Highly Absorbable Iron and Zinc Reduces Iron and Zinc Deficiency and Improves Weight-For-Age Z-Scores in South African Children
Author(s): Troesch B, van Stujivenberg ME, Smuts CM, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: This article, published in the Journal of Nutrition, examines the efficacy for reducing iron and zinc deficiency, and for reducing underweight, of a low-iron and -zinc micronutrient powder containing iron, ascorbic acid, and an exogenous phytase active at gut pH.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Micronutrient Update
Author(s): Mukuria A, Kothari M
Authoring organization(s): Macro International for the US Agency for International Development
Published: 2007
Summary: This Micronutrient Update, which continues where the May 2002 Micronutrient Update left off, presents information on women and children from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2000 and 2005.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, general nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Measuring the quality of mother-child feeding interactions: a study of indicators for responsive feeding
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This brief describes findings from an IYCN-sponsored study in Peru, which validated indicators for responsive feeding by comparing mothers’ observed feeding behaviors with their recall of these same behaviors on the following day.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, complementary feeding
Type(s): Brief
Region: Global
Mobilizing communities for improved nutrition: a manual and guide for training community leaders
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This manual provides step-by-step instructions for facilitating a one-day workshop with community leaders (including religious leaders, business leaders, and government officials) to support and improve children’s health and well-being through improved maternal, infant, and young child nutrition.
- Mobilizing communities for improved nutrition: a manual and guide for training community leaders
Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Training materials
Region: Global
Mother-to-Mother Support Groups: Trainer’s Manual and Facilitator’s Manual
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: These manuals were developed to assist mother-to-mother support group facilitators. They provide more detailed background information on possible support group topics for facilitators and further information if mothers have questions that facilitators cannot answer.
- Mother-to-Mother Support Groups: Trainer’s Manual
- Mother-to-Mother Support Groups: Facilitator’s Manual with Discussion Guide
Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Training manual
Region: Global
National Interpretations: Responding to the 2009 WHO guidelines in Nigeria and other countries
Authoring organization(s): IYCN
Published: 2010
Summary: This presentation, delivered at a satellite session at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria in July 2010, describes IYCN’s experience with the 2009 World Health Organization Guidelines at the national level in Nigeria and Zambia.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Presentation
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
National Norms for Safe Feeding of HIV-exposed Infants and Young Children
Authoring organization(s): Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project, Haiti Ministry of Health
Published: 2009
Summary: This document provides clear guidance for health workers to effectively support mothers on infant feeding in Haiti.
French:
Topic(s): General nutrition, infant Feeding and HIV
Type(s): Policy
Region: Latin American and the Caribbean
Neither a Zinc Supplement nor Phytate-Reduced Maize nor Their Combination Enhance Growth of 6- to 12-Month-Old Guatemalan Infants
Author(s): Mazariegos M, Hambidge KM, Westcott JE, et al.
Published: 2010
Summary: The objective of this study, published in The Journal of Nutrition, was to determine the effect of supplementing low-phytate maize, a daily zinc supplement, or both in infants between the ages of 6 and 12 months on impaired linear growth velocity, a common feature of zinc deficiency.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Latin America
New Hope for Malnourished Mothers and Children
Author(s): Munoz E
Authoring organization(s): Bread for the World
Published: 2009
Summary: This briefing paper argues that in addition to focusing on agricultural productivity, the Obama administration should scale up nutrition interventions and integrate nutrition into its development programming.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Briefing paper
Region: Global
Niger: National Policy, Plan, and Strategy for Infant Feeding
Authoring organization(s): République du Niger
Published: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Summary: This collection includes the national guidelines, plan, policy, and strategy for infant feeding in Niger.
French:
- Plan National d’Action Pour la Nutrition
- Politique Nationale en Matiere d’Alimentation et de Nutrition
- Strategie Nationale pour l’Alimentation du Nourrisson et du Jeune Enfant
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): National plan, policy document, national strategy, guidelines
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria: Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV/AIDS
Authoring organization(s): Federal Ministry of Health, Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This brochure was developed to help health workers, donors, United Nations agencies, and other stakeholders understand Nigeria’s recent National Consensus on Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV. The user-friendly brochure clearly explains the consensus, that responds to the 2010 World Health Organization guidelines on HIV and infant feeding.
Topic(s): Infant Feeding and HIV
Type(s): Brochure
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria: National Policy on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Nigeria
Authoring organization(s): Federal Republic of Nigeria, Federal Ministry of Health, Nutrition Division
Published: 2005
Summary: The Nigerian National Policy addresses specific rationale, goals and objectives, and policy statements.
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Policy document
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Nutrition Essentials: A Guide for Program Managers
Author(s): Sanghvi T
Authoring organization(s): Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival
Published: 1999
Summary: This is a reference manual for major nutrition interventions to improve maternal and infant and young child nutrition. The document provides background information on the role of nutrition in child survival, priority nutrition interventions, how to strengthen and integrate nutrition in district health services, how to work in the community and suggested community activities, and tools and instruments to support nutrition interventions.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, complementary feeding, general nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Reference manual
Region: Global
Nutrition, Food Security and HIV: A Compendium of Promising Practices
Authoring organization(s): Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care in Uganda, Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA)
Published: 2008
Summary: The Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care in Uganda and the FANTA Project organized extensive in-country reviews by local teams of nutrition, food security, and HIV programs in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. This document compiles, analyzes, and describes the promising practices identified through the reviews.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and emergencies, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Nutrition and Food Security Impacts of Agriculture Projects: A Review of Experience
Authoring organization(s): IYCN
Published: 2011
Summary: This document summarizes IYCN’s review of more than 30 years of studies examining food security and nutrition impacts of agricultural projects in low-income countries. Findings revealed that it is possible to anticipate food security and nutrition impacts and agricultural projects can be oriented in ways that maximize positive outcomes.
Topic(s): Food security, general nutrition
Type(s): Literature review
Region: Global
Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual for Nurses and Midwives
Authoring organization(s): East, Central and Southern African Health Community Secretariat, Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA), LINKAGES Project
Published: 2008
Summary: This manual provides nursing students with the knowledge and skills needed for nutrition care and support of people living with HIV.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Training manual
Region: Global
Nutrition Toolkit
Authoring organization(s): The World Bank
Summary: This toolkit includes nine booklets on different nutrition topics, including nutrition project design, basic facts (nuts and bolts in nutrition), economic analysis, growth promotion (child), food supplements, food stamps, monitoring and evaluation, nutrition communications, and school nutrition.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, complementary feeding, general nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Booklet
Region: Global
Nutritional Impact Assessment Tool and Guidance
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This tool aims to assist project designers in assessing an agriculture project’s likely impacts on the nutrition of vulnerable groups. When it is not possible to include nutrition objectives in the design of a project, conducting a nutritional impact assessment during the planning process can help to avoid unintended negative impacts.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Tool
Region: Global
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Operational Guidance on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies, v2.1
Authoring organization(s): IFE Core Group
Published: 2007
Summary: The operational guidance for emergency relief staff and policymakers provides concise and practical, mainly non-technical, guidance on how to ensure appropriate infant and young child feeding in emergencies.
Topic(s): Infant feeding in emergencies
Type(s): Guidance document
Region: Global
Our approach: Expanding breastfeeding by HIV-positive mothers in Nigeria
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This document describes the experiences of IYCN and partners in influencing, shaping, and disseminating Nigeria’s new National Policy and Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding, as part of national efforts to prevent malnutrition and improve HIV-free survival of children.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Our approach series
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Our approach: Improving nutrition counseling across the continuum of care in Zambia
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This document summarizes a demonstration project implemented in two of Zambia’s health facilities, which showed that efforts to improve nutrition assessment, counseling, and support across the continuum of care achieve greater success when activities at the community and facility levels are linked.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Our approach series
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
PEPtalk (July 2010)
Authoring organization(s): US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Côte d’Ivoire
Published: 2010
Summary: The PEPtalk newsletter shares updates and news from PEPFAR projects in Côte d’Ivoire. The July 2010 edition highlights the Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project’s efforts to supply 21 social centers throughout the country with nutrition tools and equipment.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Newsletter
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Postintervention Growth of Malawian Children who Received 12-Mo Dietary Complementation with a Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplement or Maize-Soy Flour
Author(s): Phuka JC, Maleta K, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: This study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition followed a population of Malawian children to asses whether the benefits from a 12-month dietary supplement were sustained over an additional two years.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Prenatal food supplementation fortified with multiple micronutrients increases birth length: a randomized controlled trial in rural Burkina Faso
Author(s): Huybregys H, Roberfroid D, Lanou H, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: This study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, sought to determine whether a prenatal multiple micronutrient-fortified food supplement improves anthropometric measures at birth compared with supplementation with a multiple micronutrient pill alone.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Baseline Survey, Ethiopia, April 2004
Authoring organization(s): US Agency for International Development, Academy for Educational Development-LINKAGES Project
Published: 2004
Summary: This baseline survey was conducted across April and May 2004 as part of the LINKAGES Project and focused on 900 women with infants less than 12 months of age.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Prevention of
Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: Generic Training Package
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Published: 2004, 2008
Summary: The original World Health Organization and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Generic Training Package was completed in 2004, and the first update was completed in early 2008. This package is a comprehensive, evidence-based course developed for implementation in resource-limited settings. It provides a framework for updating existing policy, developing materials where needed, and a mechanism for developing and sustaining human capacity building for programs.
English:
- Introduction and Overview of Generic Training Package
- Participant Manual
- Presentation Booklet
- Pocket Guide
- Trainer Manual
- Training Programme and Course Director Guide
- Wall Chart
French:
Spanish:
Russian:
Topic(s): Behavior change communication, infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation, non-English
Type(s): Booklet, poster, training guide
Region: Global
Promoting Better Nutrition for Children in Kenya’s Communities
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2010
Summary: This slideshow features photographs from IYCN’s community-based infant feeding activities in Kenya. The slideshow is a collaboration of the IYCN Project, the Society for Women and AIDS in Kenya, and PATH.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Slideshow
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
ProPAN: Process for the Promotion of Child Feeding
Authoring organization(s): Emory University, Nutrition Research Institute, National Institute of Public Health, and Pan American Health Organization
Published: 2003
Summary: ProPAN is a manual and software aimed at ministries of health, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations interested in improving infant and young child feeding practices. It describes a step-by-step process to identify nutrition and dietary problems, determine why these problems occur, and to design and evaluate an intervention based on the problems identified.
Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Protecting Young Children from Diarrheal Disease
Authoring organization(s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
Published: 2008
Summary: This fact sheet provides an overview of PATH’s multifaceted approach to protecting children from diarrheal disease.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Fact sheet
Region: Global
Qualitative Assessment of Maternal Nutrition Practices in Zambia
Authoring organization(s): IYCN, The National Food and Nutrition Commission, United Nations Children’s Fund
Published: 2009
Summary: IYCN and the National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC) jointly conducted a qualitative assessment of maternal nutritional knowledge and practices in Zambia. Findings from this assessment provide insight into maternal nutritional practices.
Topic(s): Maternal nutrition
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Qualitative Assessment of Nutrition, PMTCT, and OVC Services: Addis Ababa and Oromia, Ethiopia
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This assessment, conducted in health centers in the regions of Addis Ababa and Oromia, provides insight into nutrition services and practices in Ethiopia. The assessment also highlights gaps, including nutrition counseling practices and tools, that call for the attention of both policymakers and program implementers in maternal and child health and nutrition.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Formative assessment
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
A Randomized Trial to Determine the Optimal Dosage of Multivitamin Supplements to Reduce Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among HIV-infected Women in Tanzania
Author(s): Kawai K, Kupka R, Mugusi F
Published: 2009
Summary: This study investigated the efficacy of multivitamin supplements at single compared with multiple Recommended Dietary Allowances on decreasing the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes among HIV-infected women.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Recipe Book on Zambian Traditional Foods
Authoring organization(s): Zambia Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, USAID, IYCN
Published: 2010
Summary: This book targets low-income groups in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas and focuses on the promotion of locally grown indigenous foods. The book also provides relevant information on basic nutrition, the linkage between HIV/AIDS and nutrition, and information on infant and young child feeding.
Topic(s): Complementary feeding
Type(s): Recipe book
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Referral Tracking Form and Register
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This tool is designed to track referrals of caregivers from community volunteers to health centers.
Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Tool
Region: Global
Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Global Hunger and Poverty
Authoring organization(s): The Chicago Initiative on Global Agriculture Development
Published: 2009
Summary: The Chicago Initiative on Global Agriculture Development’s report includes five recommendations and more than 20 specific suggestions for how the United States, through increased agricultural development assistance and partnerships at home and abroad, could help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and restore the United States as a force for positive change in the world.
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development: A Strategy for Large-Scale Action
Author(s): Shekar M, Heaver R, Lee Y-K
Authoring organization(s): The World Bank
Published: 2006
Summary: This policy document describes the justification for increasing investments in nutrition, the magnitude of malnutrition, the programs that work, and how to take programs to scale.
Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Book
Region: Global
Resource Library: Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies
Authoring organization(s): Emergency Nutrition Network
Summary: The Emergency Nutrition Network has compiled this library of resources on infant feeding and emergencies. These key resources have been developed by the Infant Feeding and Emergencies Core Group and collaborators.
Topic(s): General nutrition, infant feeding and emergencies
Type(s): Resource library
Region: Global
Responsive Feeding and Child Undernutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Author(s): Bentley ME, Wasser HM, Creed-Kanashiro HM, et al.
Published: 2011
Summary: This article, published in the Journal of Nutrition, presents the evolution of responsive feeding research and the strength of the evidence for responsive feeding on child undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger
Authoring organization(s): Bread for the World, CARE, PATH, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: The roadmap, and supporting documents, assembled by a coalition of non-governmental organizations, sets forth a comprehensive and strategic plan that addresses world hunger in the short, intermediate, and long term. This approach seeks to increase funding for key interventions needed to alleviate global hunger and ensure better coordination among existing US government programs.
- A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger
- One-Page Summary of A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger
- Rep. Jim McGovern’s Remarks on A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger
Topic(s): Food security
Type(s): Advocacy document
Region: Global
Role of Breastfeeding Cessation in Mediating the Relationship between Maternal HIV Disease Stage and Increased Child Mortality among HIV-Exposed Uninfected Children
Author(s): Fox MP, Brooks DR, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: This study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, analyzed the role of breastfeeding cessation and its effect on mortality of HIV-exposed children.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, HIV and infant feeding
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
The Roles and Influence of Grandmothers and Men: Evidence Supporting a Family-Focused Approach to Optimal Infant and Young Child Nutrition
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This report reviews evidence on the roles and influence of grandmothers and men on child nutrition, and offers recommendations for program implementers to strengthen community approaches for addressing malnutrition and improving results.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Literature review
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
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SASHA Project: Integrating health and agriculture to maximize the nutritional impact of orange-fleshed sweet potato: The Mama SASHA action research project in Western Kenya
Authoring organization(s): Mama SASHA Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This technical brief summarizes the activities of the Mama SAHA Project in Western Kenya to test an integrated orange-flesh sweet potato-based intervention at the community level for agriculture, nutrition, and health.
Topic(s): Food security
Type (s): Technical brief
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Scaling Up Micronutrient Programs: What Works and What Needs More Work?
Authoring organization(s): Micronutrient Forum
Published: 2009
Summary: This report describes the 2008 Innocenti Process that was initiated by the Micronutrient Forum to examine knowledge related to program implementation in real-world settings.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Scaling Up Nutrition: What Will It Cost?
Authoring organization(s): World Bank
Published: 2010
Summary: Scaling Up Nutrition: What Will It Cost? argues that an additional US$10.3 billion a year is required from public resources to mount a successful attack against undernutrition on a worldwide scale and offers suggestions on how to raise these resources.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Book
Region: Global
School Feeding: Outcomes and Costs
Author(s): Galloway R, Kristjansson E, Gelli A, et al.
Published: 2009
Summary: This article, published in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin in October 2009, analyzes the costs per child of school feeding programs against impacts on attendance, growth, and cognitive ability to determine the cost for improvements.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Selected Abstracts on HIV and Infant Feeding from the XVIII International AIDS Conference
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2010
Summary: This report is a compilation of abstracts on HIV and infant feeding presented at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria organized by theme.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Service Provision Assessment of Nutrition Services and Support: Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This assessment examines support for maternal, infant, and young child nutrition services provided by federal, state, and local government in Nigeria. In addition, the study assesses nutrition services provided by select health facilities and orphans and vulnerable children partners in the Abuja Municipal Area Council and the Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Formative assessment
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Situational analysis of infant and young child nutrition activities in the Sahel – executive summary
Author(s): Wuehler SE, Hess SY, Brown KH
Published: 2011
Summary: This journal article, published in Maternal and Child Nutrition, reports on the results from a situation analysis evaluating infant and young child feeding activities carried out in six Sahalian countries of West and Central Africa.
- Situational analysis of infant and young child nutrition activities in the Sahel – executive summary
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Global
Slideshow: Engaging fathers to boost child nutrition
Authoring organization(s): IYCN
Published: 2010
Summary: This slideshow features photos of fathers who are supporting mothers to improve nutrition for their children in Western Kenya. Through the stories of these inspiring fathers, the slideshow illustrates IYCN’s recommended approach for engaging men to improve child nutrition in communities around the world.
Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Slideshow
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger’s recent food crisis
Author(s): Hampshire K, Casiday R, Kilpatrick K, et al.
Published: 2008
Summary: This qualitative, anthropological study investigates pathways by which children are rendered vulnerable within the context of a nutritional “emergency.” It focuses on household-level decisions that determine resource allocation and childcare practices in order to explain why practices apparently detrimental to children’s health persist.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Society for Women and AIDS in Kenya (SWAK) News
Authoring organization(s): SWAK
Published: 2009
Summary: SWAK News is a quarterly newsletter of the Society for Women and AIDS in Kenya. It provides a networking forum for the communities across the country and showcases SWAK programs as they continue to have a positive impact on women and their families.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Newsletter
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa: National Policy, Guidelines, and Strategic Plan for Infant and Young Child Feeding and HIV/AIDS
Authoring organization(s): Republic of South Africa, National Department of Health
Published: 2007, 2008
Summary: This collection includes South Africa’s policy, guidelines, and plan for HIV and AIDS, infant and young child feeding, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programs.
- Infant and Young Child Feeding Policy
- Policy and Guidelines for the Implementation of the PMTCT Programme
- HIV and AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa 2007–2011
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Policy document, guidelines, strategic plan
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
The State of Breastfeeding in 33 Countries: 2010
Authoring organization(s): World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative
Published: 2010
Summary: This report documents an assessment done in 33 countries, as part of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative, of infant and young child feeding policies and programs aimed at enabling women to successfully breastfeed their babies and provide good complementary feeding with continued breastfeeding after the age of six months.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
The State of the World’s Children 2011: Adolescence: An Age for Opportunity
Authoring organization(s): UNICEF
Published: 2011
Summary: This report examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in health, education, protection and participation; and explores the risks and vulnerabilities of this pivotal life stage. The report highlights the singular opportunities that adolescence offers, both for adolescents themselves and for the societies they live in.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Sub-Saharan AfricaStrengthening community nutrition programming: tools for reaching caregivers, households, and communities
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This brief provides an overview of IYCN’s collection of tools for community-based nutrition programming, including a summary of the project’s community approaches and methods used to develop the materials.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Brief
Region: Global
Strengthening Health Talks: Training Manual
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: The purpose of this manual is to provide step-by-step instructions for facilitating a half-day workshop to improve the quality of group counseling sessions and health talks.
Topic(s): Behavior change communication
Type(s): Training manual
Region: Global
Sudan: The National Strategy for Reproductive Health 2006–2010
Authoring organization(s): Republic of Sudan, Federal Ministry of Health
Published: 2006
Summary: This national strategy for Sudan was developed to establish set policies and development goals and targets.
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): National strategy
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Summary of sociocultural and epidemiological findings on infant and young child feeding in 11 countries
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This document provides a summary of quantitative and qualitative data from IYCN formative assessments and existing literature from 11 countries, highlighting common sociocultural practices related to feeding infants and young children and dietary practices of pregnant and lactating women, and providing a framework for a focused strategy to enhance infant and young child nutrition programming.
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, complementary feeding
Type(s): Brief
Region: Global
Survival of Infants Born to HIV-Positive Mothers, by Feeding Modality, in Rakai, Uganda
Author(s): Kagaayi J, Gray RH, Brahmbhatt H, et al.
Published: 2008
Summary: This article, published in PLoS ONE, revealed results on infant mortality and HIV transmission from a program-based intervention in Rakai, Uganda. Mothers received antenatal infant feeding counseling and chose exclusive breastfeeding or formula feeding.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Africa
Swaziland: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Guidelines
Authoring organization(s): Kingdom of Swaziland, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Published: 2006
Summary: This second edition of Swaziland’s guidelines on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV was developed to include the new World Health Organization recommendations.
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Guidelines
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa Project Brief
Authoring organization(s): Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa
Published: 2010
Summary: This project brief describes the Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa (SASHA) five-year initiative. SASHA is designed to improve food security and livelihoods of poor families in sub-Saharan Africa by exploiting the untapped potential of sweet potatoes.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Brief
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Tanzania: National Policy on HIV/AIDS
Authoring organization(s): The United Republic of Tanzania, Prime Minister’s Office
Published: 2001
Summary: The National Policy was created as a framework for the multisectoral response to HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Policy document
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Testing and
Counseling for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Authoring organization(s): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Published: 2006
Summary: This set of materials includes educational materials, job aids, and training resources to support the integration of testing and counseling into antenatal care, labor and delivery, and post-delivery settings. Their goal is to facilitate the efficient delivery of essential prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) messages, focusing on improving the uptake of HIV testing among pregnant women and their partners, increasing the number of women who know their HIV status, and promoting and providing appropriate PMTCT interventions.
- Overview
- Antenatal Support Tools
- Labour and Delivery Support Tools
- Post-Delivery Support Tools
- Reference Guide
- Adaptations (from Cambodia and Mozambique)
Topic(s): Behavior change communication, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Counseling cards, poster, training guide
Region: Global
Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition
Authoring organization(s): United Nations Children’s Fund
Published: 2009
Summary: Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition reports that undernutrition in mothers and children is a factor in a third of all deaths of children younger than 5 years. At the same time, the global financial crisis and rising food prices have left many more families struggling to put nutritious food on the table. The report draws attention to the fact that 200 million children younger than 5 in the developing world suffer from chronic undernutrition.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
Uganda: Uganda Policy Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding
Authoring organization(s): Republic of Uganda, Ministry of Health
Published: 2007
Summary: This framework was created to improve nutrition, health, and growth for infants and young children, and to provide greater support for those caring for infants and young children to utilize optimal practices.
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Guidelines
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Understanding challenges and opportunities for improved maternal nutrition
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This review summarizes qualitative research findings on maternal nutrition from nine IYCN country programs. The document describes sociocultural barriers to improved nutrition and offers recommendations for improving maternal nutrition programming.
Topic(s): Maternal nutrition
Type(s): Brief
Region: Global
Update on the Science of Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
Author(s): Mofenson L
Authoring organization(s): National Institutes of Health, University of California at San Francisco Center for HIV Information
Published: 2009
Summary: This resource is a slide set that provides a technical update on prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV (PMTCT). The slide set highlights efforts to improve the efficacy of the PMTCT regimen.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): PowerPoint presentation
Region: Global
Video: Better feeding, healthy babies
Authoring organization(s): IYCN
Published: 2010
Summary: This video features a two-minute interview with Victoria Ndhlovu, a nurse manager at Kanyama Health Centre in Lusaka, Zambia. She discusses how volunteers fill a critical role in supporting mothers to improve infant and young child feeding in her community.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Video
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Video: Connecting with the community: Kabwe’s story
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2011
Summary: This video highlights the story of Kabwe, Zambia, where the IYCN Project contributed to strengthening linkages between nutritional support activities in communities and health facilities.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Video
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Video: IYCN’s Tom Schaetzel on World AIDS Day 2010
Authoring organization(s): PATH, IYCN
Published: 2010
Summary: In this three-minute video, Tom Schaetzel, IYCN Technical Director, discusses new opportunities for HIV-positive mothers to greatly reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to their infants while breastfeeding.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Video
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Vietnam: National Guidelines and Procedure of Care and Treatment for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Authoring organization(s): Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Ministry of Health
Published: 2005, 2007
Summary: These documents produced by the Ministry of Health include the guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS and the procedure of care for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
- Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of HIV/AIDS
- Procedure of Care and Treatment for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): Guidelines, national procedure
Region: Asia
What are the Options: Using Formative Research to Adapt Global Recommendations on HIV and Infant Feeding to the Local Context
Author(s): Piwoz E
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 2004
Summary: The purpose of this manual is to provide program managers, researchers, and policymakers with basic guidance on how to conduct local assessments to establish the range of replacement feeding options and breast milk feeding options that may be acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable, and safe in different contexts.
Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation
Type(s): Technical report
Region: Global
World Health Organization PMTCT Strategic Vision 2010-2015
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization
Published: 2010
Summary: This document defines WHO’s commitment to global and country support to scale up access to services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV and integrate these services with maternal, newborn, and child health programs.
WHO PMTCT strategic vision 2010-2015
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Strategy
Region: Global
Zambia: Improving infant feeding to protect babies from HIV
Authoring organization(s): Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2009
Summary: This success story is about Patricia Nawa, an HIV-positive mother from Zambia, who used good infant feeding practices to help protect her baby from HIV.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Handout
Region: Global
Zambia Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course
Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization (WHO), Ministry of Health, National Food and Nutrition Commission, Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project, United Nations Population Fund (UNICEF)
Published: 2008
Summary: This course on infant feeding practices was adapted from WHO’s Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course. It was produced by the Ministry of Health and the National Food and Nutrition Commission of the Republic of Zambia with technical assistance and funding from UNICEF and the IYCN Project. The course covers breastfeeding, HIV and infant feeding, and complementary feeding.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Curriculum
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Zambia: National Strategy and Recommendations for Infant and Young Child and Feeding
Authoring organization(s): Republic of Zambia, Ministry of Health, National Food and Nutrition Commission
Published: 2004, 2006, 2007
Summary: This collection of materials produced by the Ministry of Health includes the national operational strategy for infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and recommendations for IYCF within the context of HIV. Also included are nutrition guidelines for people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Nutrition Guidelines for Care and Support of People Living with HIV/AIDS
- Recommendations for Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) in the Context of HIV for Zambia
Topic(s): Policy
Type(s): National strategy, guidelines, recommendations
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Zambia Radio Program Scripts: Bushes that Grow are the Future Forest, Feeding Our Children Well for Our Future
Authoring organization(s): Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2010
Summary: The 13-part radio series scripts are part of a behavior change communication campaign to improve infant and young child nutrition practices in Zambia. The campaign follows Sister Loveness, a health worker, as she travels around the country to teach families how to prevent malnutrition in their children.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Radio program scripts
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Zinc Treatment for 5 or 10 days Is Equally Efficacious in Preventing Diarrhea in the Subsequent 3 Months Among Bangladeshi Children
Author(s): Alam DS,Yunus M,El Arifeen S, et al.
Published: 2011
Summary: This article, published in the Journal of Nutrition, documents acommunity trial in rural Bangladesh to compare the efficacy of a five- and ten-day course of zinc therapy on the incidence and duration of diarrhea over the subsequent follow-up after initial treatment for an acute childhood diarrheal episode.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Journal article
Region: Asia
ZVITAMBO Infant
Feeding Materials
Authoring organization(s): ZVITAMBO, Ministry of Health Zimbabwe
Summary: These posters from ZVITAMBO contain key, consistent messages that are geared towards mothers, health workers, and other family and community members. The posters are supplemented by simple brochures.
- Start Breastfeeding in the First Hour of Life
- Expressing and Heat Treating Breast Milk
- Make Breastfeeding Safer
- Breastfeed Often
- Breast Milk Only Birth to 6 Months: Nothing But Breast Milk
- Breast Milk Only: Birth to 6 Months
- How to Practice Exclusive Breastfeeding (Cover)
- How to Practice Exclusive Breastfeeding (Inside)
- How To Express and Heat Treat Breast Milk
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Brochure, poster
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Photo: Aurelio Ayala III
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