July 2017
Issue 55 / English
Editorials
- Editorial (page 1)
Field Articles
- Mainstreaming nutrition in a school-based feeding programme in northeast Nigeria (page 3)
- Realising rights and livelihoods opportunities among tribal populations in rural India (page 7)
- Building health service capacity to manage severe acute malnutrition in Mali (page 11)
- Impact of nutrition education alongside treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in Madagascar (page 14)
- A multisector approach to monitoring planned and actual nutrition spending (page 49)
- Learning from the Porridge Mums project in northeast Nigeria (page 53)
- Community video in the Sahel: from pilot to scale (page 56)
- Advocating for nutrition in West Africa: The role of SUN Civil Society Alliances (page 60)
- Management of acute malnutrition in infants less than six months in a South Sudanese refugee population in Ethiopia (page 70)
- Scaling up CMAM in protracted emergencies and low resource settings: experiences from Sudan (page 74)
- Improving nutrition information systems: lessons from Kenya (page 80)
- Interventions to build resilience of the health system to the El Niño drought in Ethiopia (page 94)
- Multi-sector, nutrition-sensitive response to drought emergency in Pakistan (page 98)
Evaluations
- Retrospective qualitative analysis of an infant and young child feeding intervention among refugees in Europe (page 85)
- Building capacity in inpatient treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Yemen (page 87)
- Evaluation of the response to Hurricane Matthew, Haiti (page 89)
Research
- Child height gain is associated with consumption of animal-source foods in livestock-owning households in Western Kenya (page 17)
- Global trends and patterns of commercial milk-based formula sales (page 17)
- Factors associated with stunting among pre-school children in Tanzania (page 18)
- Violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes: Indonesia context (page 18)
- A qualitative study of the root causes of undernutrition in Nairobi slums (page 19)
- Role of intestinal dysfunction in the nutritional compromise seen in human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults in rural India (page 19)
- Famine fears in northeast Nigeria as Boko Haram fight rages (page 20)
- Pros and cons of cost-effectiveness thresholds (page 20)
- Refugee crisis presents a human paradox (page 20)
- The impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme on the nutritional status of children (page 21)
- The link between tuberculosis and undernutrition (page 21)
- A small-quantity, lipid-based nutrient supplement to reduce anaemia and stunting among refugees in the Horn of Africa (page 22)
- Preventing and treating growth faltering in Maya children (page 22)
- AJFAND special issue on biofortification (page 23)
- An overview of biofortification in Africa (page 23)
- Development and delivery of orange sweet potato in Sub-Saharan Africa (page 24)
- Optimal investments in biofortification (page 24)
- Does economic growth reduce childhood undernutrition in Ethiopia? (page 25)
- Preparation and presentation of corn-soy blend for moderately malnourished children in Malawi (page 26)
- The impact of in-kind food assistance on pastoralist livelihoods in humanitarian crises (page 28)
- The effects of DFID CTPs on poverty and vulnerability (page 29)
- Is exposure to animal faeces harmful to child nutrition and health outcomes? (page 31)
- Impact of maternal undernutrition and childbearing in adolescence on offspring stunting (page 32)
- Impact of a conditional cash transfer programme on determinants of child health in Colombia (page 34)
- Drought, conflict and undernutrition in Ethiopia (page 35)
- Does nutritional supplementation for two weeks prevent malnutrition in ill children? (page 36)
- Diagnostic criteria for severe acute malnutrition among infants under six months of age (page 38)
- Child outcomes of cash transfer programmes in humanitarian and development contexts (page 40)
- Methods to detect cases of severely malnourished infants under six months (page 41)
- A review of barriers to and enablers of nutrition policy change (page 43)
- MUAC vs WHZ in predicting mortality in hospitalised children under five years of age (page 44)
- Financing the sustainable scale-up of CMAM in high-burden countries (page 45)
- Aid effectiveness of the Zimbabwe multi-donor trust fund (page 47)
- Review of WHO guidelines for the inpatient management of severe acute malnutrition (page 48)
Agency Profiles
- Valid International (page 91)
News & Views
- What does nutrition-sensitive programming mean for WFP? (page 63)
- WHO’s new emergencies programme bridges two worlds (page 64)
- #SenegalNutrition (page 65)
- Public health in humanitarian crises online course (page 65)
- UNHCR multi-sector market assessment toolkit (page 65)
- No Wasted Lives: Accelerating action for children with acute malnutrition (page 66)
- Driving evidence to action: The Council of Research & Technical Advice on SAM (CORTASAM) (page 67)
- Prioritising acute malnutrition research: preliminary results of a CHNRI survey (page 68)
- Launch of The State of Severe Malnutrition website (page 69)
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In this edition, we feature field articles on:
Resilient health systems in Ethiopia; Tribal livelihoods in rural India; School feeding in Nigeria; Managing SAM in Mali; Treating MAM in Madagascar; Monitoring nutrition spend in Uganda and Nepal; Mother support groups in Nigeria; Community video in the Sahel; SUN civil society alliance in West Africa; Scaling up CMAM in Sudan; MAMI in Ethiopia; Nutrition information systems in Kenya; Nutrition-sensitive response to drought in Pakistan