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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
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
Directions in Global Health
Authoring organization(s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
Published: 2008
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.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Newsletter
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, non-English
Type(s): Fact sheet
Region: Global
IYCN Success Story: Lesotho
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
IYCN Success Story: Zambia
Authoring organization(s): Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
Published: 2009
Summary: This is a 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
Meeting the Global Need for Nutrients
Authoring organization(s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
Published: 2008
Summary: The 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
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
Technical materials
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
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
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 HIV project managers and other HIV project managers on current technical knowledge 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 0–24 months, and HIV-positive children 0–24 months; special support for people living with HIV/AIDS on antriretroviral therapy; 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
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 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.
Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV
Type(s): Training manuals
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
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 and accompanying handout, 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.
- Poster: Making the Case for Preventing Malnutrition Through Improved Infant Feeding and Management of Childhood Illness
- Handout: Making the Case for Preventing Malnutrition Through Improved Infant Feeding and Management of Childhood Illness
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Poster, handout
Region: Global
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.
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- Normes Nationales Relatives a L’alimentation du Nourrisson et du Jeune Enfant Sains et Ceux Nés de Mères Séropositives
Topic(s): General nutrition, infant Feeding and HIV
Type(s): Policy
Region: Latin American and the Caribbean
Photo: Aurelio Ayala III
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