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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 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-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.
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
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
Infant & 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 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 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
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
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 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.
Topic(s): General nutrition
Type(s): Formative research report
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
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
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
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
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
Zambia: Improving infant feeding to protect babies from HIV
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
Technical materials
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Strengthening Health Talk Guide: 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
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 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
Zambia: 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
Photo: Aurelio Ayala III
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