The Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project helps countries establish policies and guidelines aimed at preventing malnutrition and increasing children’s chances to flourish and lead productive lives. Working in Africa, Asia, and Latin America […]
Date: Mar 22, 2009 | Category: Announcements
March 2009 An IYCN assessment found that HIV-positive mothers in Kenya are putting their babies at increased risk of HIV infection because they stop exclusive breastfeeding too early. To give children a chance for a […]
Date: Mar 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
March 2009 When mothers are malnourished, their babies have a higher chance of suffering from malnutrition. It’s a vicious cycle that nutrition advocates have been trying to combat in Madagascar. Despite national efforts to improve […]
Date: Mar 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
March 2009 Last month, the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood and CARE joined a distinguished group of advocates to unveil Mothers Day Every Day. The campaign aims to accelerate progress toward safe pregnancy and […]
Date: Mar 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
March 2009 We are pleased to welcome Tom Schaetzel as our new technical director. Dr. Schaetzel will lead the project’s technical initiatives and global leadership activities. Before joining our team, he was the nutrition adviser […]
Date: Mar 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
March 2009 A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger was published in February 2009 by a broad-based coalition of nongovernmental organizations, advocacy groups, and religious organizations calling for the Obama administration and Congress […]
Date: Mar 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
February 2009 The 2009 Development Marketplace grant competition, administered by the World Bank, invites proposals from all South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) under the theme “Family […]
Date: Feb 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
January 2009 Volunteer health workers like Mamorena Namane help the IYCN Project reach out to communities. Mamorena is from rural Lesotho, a country in southern Africa, where more than one-third of children younger than five […]
Date: Jan 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
August 2008 Babies who are properly breastfed can grow up to be as healthy and strong as Olympic athletes. That’s the message Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho delivered to families across the country in […]
Date: Aug 2, 2008 | Category: Announcements