November 2019
Issue 61 / English
Field Articles
- Improving practical skills for breastfeeding vulnerable infants in low-resource settings: training material development and a case study from Rwanda (page 0)
- Improving minimum dietary diversity for children aged 6-23 months when household affordability is a major constraint in northeast Bangladesh. (page 3)
- Improving practical skills for breastfeeding vulnerable infants in low resource settings: A case study from Rwanda (page 7)
- Estimating ‘people in need’ from combined GAM in Afghanistan (page 11)
- Challenges in protecting non-breastfed infants in the Rohingya response in Bangladesh (page 40)
- International Medical Corps strengthens nutrition alert and surveillance systems in South Sudan (page 44)
- Scale-up of malnutrition screening by the World Health Organization in Syria (page 57)
- Integrating nutrition services into mobile health teams: Bringing comprehensive services to an underserved population in Afghanistan (page 62)
Research
- Ensuring pregnancy weight gain: An integrated community-based approach to tackle maternal nutrition in India (page 14)
- Dynamics of the nutritional status of children under five years old in northwest Syria (page 18)
- Cost of the Diet analysis in Bria, Central African Republic (page 20)
- Barriers to infant feeding in emergencies programming in middle and high-income countries (page 24)
Special section
- Global Technical Mechanism for Nutrition (GTAM) - introduction to special section (page 47)
- Global Technical Assistance Mechanism for Nutrition (GTAM): The story so far (page 48)
- Baseline technical needs assessment for the Global Technical Assistance Mechanism for Nutrition (GTAM) (page 52)
- A review of technical discussion on en-net: Recurring questions and gaps experienced by programmers (page 53)
Postscripts
- Further perspectives on scurvy outbreak (page 29)
News & Views
- An innovative, low-cost tool for a more efficient weight-for-height/length (WHZ/WLZ) assessment (page 8)
- Nutrition Exchange (NEX) South Asia: Maternal nutrition (page 9)
- Continuity of care in acute malnutrition treatment in East Africa and West and Central Africa: a mapping exercise (page 10)
- Health systems strengthening course (page 10)
- SPRING through the seasons (page 10)
Research snapshots
- Adolescent girls’ nutrition and prevention of anaemia: a school-based multisectoral collaboration in Indonesia (page 30)
- Impact on child acute malnutrition of integrating a preventative nutrition package into facility-based screening for acute malnutrition in Burkina Faso (page 30)
- Impact on child acute malnutrition of integrating small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements into community-level screening for acute malnutrition in Mali (page 31)
- Supportive supervision to improve the quality and outcome of outpatient care among malnourished children in Uganda (page 31)
- Efficacy of F-100, diluted F-100, and infant formula for treatment of infants under six months with severe acute malnutrition (page 32)
- Inpatient and outpatient treatment for acute malnutrition in infants under six months; a qualitative study from Senegal (page 32)
- Prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition in humanitarian emergencies: a multi-organisation collaboration to increase access to synthesised evidence (page 32)
- Alternative ready-to-use therapeutic food yields less recovery than the standard for treating acute malnutrition in children from Ghana (page 33)
- Women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania (page 33)
- Analysis of trends in SMART nutrition survey data from South Sudan between 2004 and 2016 (page 34)
- Defining, measuring and interpreting the appropriateness of humanitarian assistance (page 34)
- Ebola virus disease and breastfeeding: time for attention (page 35)
- How Ebola virus disease affected nutrition in Sierra Leone – a food value-chain framework to improve future response strategies (page 35)
- Conflict of interest in nutrition research (page 36)
- Impact of reduced dose of ready-to-use therapeutic foods in children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition in Burkina Faso (page 36)
- Individualised breastfeeding support for acutely ill, malnourished infants under six months of age (page 36)
- Association of early interventions with birth outcome and child linear growth in low-income and middle-income countries (page 37)
- Practical pathways to integrate nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene (page 37)
- Soya, maize and sorghum-based ready-to-use therapeutic food with amino acid for treatment of severe acute malnutrition (page 38)
- The WASH benefits and SHINE trials: interpretation of WASH intervention effects on linear growth and diarrhoea (page 38)
- Understanding how Rwanda created an enabling environment for improvements in nutrition (page 39)
Research summaries
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- WHO nutrition surveillance in Syria
- Building assessment capacity in South Sudan
- Assessing caseloads in Afghanistan
- Barriers to infant dietary diversity in Bangladesh
- Cost of the diet analysis Central Africa Republic
- Addressing undernutrition in pregnancy in India
- Supporting non-breastfed Rohingya infants
- Use of mobile health teams in Afghanistan
- Special section on the new GTAM
- Many 'research snapshots' to browse