2011 Hunger Report
Summary: This report covers the role of the United States in mobilizing global commitments to increase investments in agriculture, food security, and nutrition...
USAID's Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Source: External
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
Summary: This article, published in the Journal of Nutrition in December 2010, examines the efficacy for reducing iron and zinc deficiency, and for reducing...
A randomized trial to determine the optimal dosage of multivitamin supplements to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes among HIV-infected women in Tanzania
Summary: This study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in November 2009, investigated the efficacy of multivitamin supplements at single...
A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger
Summary: This roadmap and supporting documents, assembled by a coalition of nongovernmental organizations, sets forth a comprehensive and strategic plan that...
Act Now! Campaign in Zambia
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...
An activity-based cost analysis of the Honduras Community-Based, Integrated Child Care (AIN-C) programme
Summary: This document reports on a cost-effectiveness analysis of the Honduras AIN-C program, a preventive health and nutrition program of the Honduras...
Anemia Prevention and Control: What Works
Summary: Part I of this document gives background information on the prevalence and causes of anemia by region, and discusses program approaches and good...
Antenatal supplementation with folic acid + iron + zinc improves linear growth and reduces peripheral adiposity in school-age children in rural Nepal
Summary: This study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in July 2009, examines the outcomes in six- to eight-year-old children who...
Anthropometric Indicators Measurement Guide
Summary: This revised guide provides information on the anthropometric impact indicators and the annual monitoring indicators for maternal and child...
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
Summary: This article, published in Pediatrics in January 2009, revealed how program enrollment and infant health outcomes would have changed if the 2006 World...