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June 2016

Issue 52 / English

Editorials

• Editorial (page 1)
• Global Nutrition Cluster knowledge management: process, learning & added value (page 55)

Field Articles

• Enabling low-literacy community health workers to treat uncomplicated SAM as part of community case management: innovation and field tests (page 3)
• Stunting and wasting in children under two years old in a semi-nomadic pastoralist population in Kenya (page 11)
• Scaling up nutrition services and maintaining service during conflict in Yemen: Lessons from the Hodeidah sub-national Nutrition Cluster (page 57)
• Philippines Nutrition Cluster: lessons learnt from the response to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) (page 61)
• Changes to Nutrition Cluster governance and partnership to reflect learning and operational realities in Somalia (page 68)
• Bangladesh Nutrition Cluster: A case in preparedness (page 72)
• Nutrition coordination in Ukraine: Experiences as a sub-cluster of health (page 76)
• Transforming media coverage of nutrition in Kenya (page 86)
• Management of SAM in the Philippines: from emergency-focused modelling to national policy and government scale-up (page 89)
• Severe acute malnutrition: an unfinished agenda in East Asia and the Pacific (page 93)
• Experiences of multi-sector programming in Malawi (page 97)
• Save the Children’s IYCF-E Rapid Response in Croatia (page 106)
• Adolescent inclusion in the Care Group approach: the Nigeria experience (page 110)
• Assessment of adolescent girl nutrition, dietary practices and roles in Zimbabwe (page 113)
• Designing a food plate for dietary counselling of pregnant women in Bangladesh (page 116)

Research

• The 2001-03 famine and the dynamics of HIV in Malawi: a natural experiment (page 14)
• Routine amoxicillin use in treatment of uncomplicated SAM in children (page 15)
• Short children with a low MUAC respond to food supplementation: an observational study from Burkina Faso (page 16)
• Effect of a community-led sanitation intervention on child diarrhoea and child growth in rural Mali (page 18)
• Are studies underestimating the effects of sanitation on child nutrition? (page 19)
• Review of the role of food and the food system in the transmission and spread of ebola virus (page 20)
• Effect of short-term supplementation with ready-to-use therapeutic food or micronutrients for children after illness for prevention of malnutrition: a randomised controlled trial in Uganda (page 22)
• Data sharing in public health emergencies: a call to researchers (page 23)
• Acceptability and feasibility of a child-feeding toolkit in Malawi (page 24)
• Ten steps to successful breastfeeding programme in DRC: a cluster-randomised controlled trial (page 25)
• Community-based management of severe malnutrition: SAM and SUW in children under five in the Melghat tribal area, central India (page 27)
• Weight-for-height and mid-upper-arm circumference should be used independently to diagnose acute malnutrition: policy implications (page 28)
• Nutrition needs and best practices for formerly trafficked female children and adolescents (page 30)
• Is MUAC alone a sufficient criterion for admission of children at high risk of mortality in South Sudan? (page 31)
• Auditing the identification and inpatient management of acute malnutrition in infants under six months in Malawi (page 32)
• Relationship between mid-upper arm circumference and weight changes in children aged six to 59 months (page 34)
• Integrated protocol for severe and moderate acute malnutrition in Sierra Leone (page 35)
• New Lancet Series on breastfeeding (page 37)
• Why invest and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices? (page 37)
• Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect (page 39)
• Social Return on Investment (SROI) assessment of a Baby-Friendly Community Initiative in urban poor settings, Nairobi, Kenya (page 41)
• Community weighting of barriers and boosters in Democratic Republic of Congo (page 44)
• Improving the quality of nutritional survey data worldwide: Putting Child Kwashiorkor on the Map Initiative (page 49)

Postscripts

• Integrating nutrition and antenatal care: a reproductive health perspective (page 103)

News & Views

• Putting Child Kwashiorkor on the Map (page 48)
• Care Groups in Emergencies: Research Report and Recommendations Guide (page 80)
• Nutrition Cluster Advocacy Strategic Framework and Toolkit (page 80)
• Regional Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (page 80)
• ENN hosted Wasting-Stunting Technical Interest Group meeting (page 81)
• Nutrition for Developing Countries 3rd edition now available (page 81)
• MAMI Interest Group meeting (page 82)
• en-net forum now available in French (page 83)
• En-net update (page 83)
• Maximising the nutritional impact of humanitarian food assistance – ECHO Desk review (page 84)
• Update on guidance on infant and young child feeding in emergencies underway (page 84)
• ENNs knowledge management project in support of the SUN Movement (page 85)
• Issue 6 of Nutrition Exchange now available (page 85)
• Linking agriculture and nutrition education for improved young child feeding (page 85)
• Food for thought: Supplementary feeding programme or ‘antenatal feeding programme’ for pregnant women (page 101)
• Severe acute malnutrition management in India’s children: the riddle (page 104)

Letters

• Letter (page 105)

Cartoons

• Cartoon Corner (page 121)