July 2003

Issue 19 / English

Editorials

Issue 19 Editorial (page 2)

Field Articles

HIV/AIDS Home Based Care in Zimbabwe (page 3)
Ambulatory treatment of severe malnutrition in Afghanistan (page 13)
Destocking to improve food security in drought - prone Ethiopia (page 21)
Better understanding vulnerability in Serbia (page 29)

Evaluations

Viability of an ENN research initiative (page 16)
Community - based targeting in Kenya (page 17)

Research

Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) (page 5)
Thin on the Ground (page 5)
Donors in humanitarian action: changing roles, trends and issues (page 7)
Viability of an ENN research initiative (page 7)
Assessing seed systems in relief operations (page 8)
HIV/AIDS and emergencies: analysis and recommendations for practice (page 9)
Livelihood assessment approaches in emergencies (page 9)
Monitoring the international code in west Africa (page 9)
NGOs and the private sector (page 11)
Seed security in southern Sudan (page 11)

Postscripts

Ambulatory treatment of severe malnutrition (page 15)

Agency Profiles

Oxfam (page 31)

News & Views

Uganda learns from Zambian GM food controversy (page 17)
Adapted MSF nutrition guidelines on F75 (page 18)
Caring for Severely Malnourished Children (page 18)
EPI INFO Training Manual for Nutrition Surveys (page 18)
ProNUTRITION and ProNut-HIV (page 18)
HIV/AIDS and Food Crises: Next Steps for RENEWAL (page 19)
Increase in the shelflife of Plumpy’nut (page 19)
Revised Sphere guidelines (page 19)
RedR and IHE merger (page 20)
Revised UNHCR operations handbook (page 20)
Training in public health in emergencies (page 20)
WFP policy on HIV/AIDS (page 20)

Letters

Famine Cry: Iraq (page 12)

People in Aid

People in Aid (issue 19) (page 33)

Cartoons

Pandamonium (issue 19) (page 29)

Other

Field Exchange salutes John Kevany (page 1)
Diet and renal function in malnutrition (page 23)
Nutrition in emergencies: SCN conference 2003 (page 24)
Operational definition of a famine (page 25)
Technical consultation on Emergency Needs Assessment (page 26)
ENN/GIFA project (page 27)
New variant famine in southern Africa (page 28)