September 2018
Issue 58 / English
Editorials
- Editorial (page 1)
Field Articles
- Results and lessons learned from WFP’s efforts to support adolescent girls in Niger (page 2)
- Participatory, decentralised monitoring to improve quality of CMAM services in Sudan (page 6)
- Treatment of severe acute malnutrition through the Integrated Child Development Scheme in Jharkand State, India (page 34)
- Nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Zambia: A continued work in progress (page 37)
- Experiences of implementing CMAM in Yemen and number of deaths averted (page 64)
- Implementation of nutrition surveys using SMART methodology in sub-Saharan Africa (page 68)
- Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) in Protracted Crisis: The South Sudan Civil Society Alliance (CSA) experience (page 75)
- Screening for maternal and child malnutrition using sentinel-based national nutrition surveillance in Afghanistan (page 79)
- Nutrition programming in Northern Bar el Ghazal, South Sudan: A time to reflect (page 84)
Evaluations
Research
- Risk factors for vitamin A and D deficiencies among children under five years old in Palestine (page 10)
- The “ComPAS” trial combined treatment model for acute malnutrition: study protocol for the economic evaluation (page 10)
- Effect of an emergency cash transfer programme on weight gain and acute malnutrition risk in Niger (page 11)
- Use and misuse of stunting as a measure of child health (page 11)
- Children who are both wasted and stunted are also underweight and have a high risk of death (page 12)
- Packaged foods: What role can they play in improving consumption of nutritious food? (page 12)
- The consumption of animal-sourced foods by infants in low-income settings (page 12)
- A series of three related published papers share findings regarding quality of care, treatment outcomes and cost-effectiveness of uncomplicated SAM treatment delivered by community health workers (CHWs) in rural Mali. (page 13)
- Research Study of the cost, cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness of three cash-based interventions in Pakistan (page 13)
- Review of scale and drivers of persistent global acute malnutrition (page 15)
- Policy brief on engagement between public and private sectors for nutrition (page 16)
- A growth reference for MUAC-for-age among school age children and adolescents and validation for mortality (page 18)
- Urban diets and nutrition: Trends, challenges and opportunities for policy action (page 19)
- Technical brief on the cost of malnutrition (page 21)
- Feasibility of a milk matters initiative to enhance milk intake in children over six months of age in Somalia (page 23)
- Putting budget data to work for nutrition (page 25)
- Weekly menu for midday meal in Bangladeshi schools: Caregivers’ choices (page 27)
- Infant formula advertising in medical journals: a cross-sectional study (and struggle to publish) (page 29)
- Training Care Groups on sexual and gender-based violence in rural Niger (page 31)
- Report on innovations in CMAM (page 41)
Special section
- Special Section: management of at risk mothers and infants under 6 months (MAMI) whole section download (page 1)
- Special Section on MAMI: Editorial (page 50)
- Piloting the C-MAMI approach in the Rohingya response in Bangladesh (page 51)
- Updated C-MAMI Tool now available (page 54)
- The cost of implementing the C-MAMI tool to treat nutritionally vulnerable infants in Bangladesh (page 55)
- Severe malnutrition in infants under six months old: outcomes and risk factors in Bangladesh (page 58)
- The Paediatric Development Clinic: A model to improve medical, nutritional and developmental outcomes for high-risk children aged under-five in rural Rwanda (page 59)
- C-MAMI tool evaluation: Learnings from Bangladesh and Ethiopia (page 62)
News & Views
- Adolescent Nutrition Interest Group meeting (page 42)
- Child wasting and stunting: Time to overcome the separation (page 43)
- Global humanitarian assistance report 2018 (page 43)
- Revised CMAM Training Guide (page 43)
- Guide to anthropometry: A practical tool for program planners, managers and implementers (page 44)
- Making connections: Joint meeting of WaSt Technical Interest Group and MAMI Special Interest Group (page 45)
- Paving the way from research to action: cash and nutrition (page 46)
- Food assistance for nutrition: Evidence Summit (page 47)
- Access to Nutrition Index (page 48)
- HIV and infant feeding in emergencies operational guidance (page 48)
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Included in this general issue is a special section on the management of at risk mothers and infants under six months (MAMI), as well as articles on:
- Targeting adolescent girls in Niger
- Quality CMAM services in Sudan
- Integrated SAM treatment in India
- Nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Zambia
- Deaths averted by CMAM in Yemen
- SUN civil society alliance in South Sudan
- National nutrition surveillance in Afghanistan
- Reflections on programming from South Sudan