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April 2020

Issue 62 / English

Editorials

• Editorial (page 3)

Field Articles

• Regional overview of emergency nutrition preparedness in Latin America and the Caribbean (page 5)
• Building national capacities for emergency nutrition preparedness and response in East Asia and the Pacific (page 10)
• Coordination of the Nutrition Sector response for forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (page 24)
• GOAL’s experiences of management of at-risk mothers and infants (MAMI) programming in Ethiopia (page 30)
• Improving nutritional outcomes of rural households through a community-based approach in Ethiopia (page 56)

Evaluations

• Impact evaluation of a nutrition-sensitive social protection programme in northern Nigeria (page 60)

Research

• Appraisal of the CMAM information system in Northern Nigeria using a ‘toolbox’ approach (page 34)
• Food aid for nutrition: A landscape review of current research and implications for future studies (page 38)
• A review of research methods used to study specialised nutritious foods (page 41)
• Municipal budget allocation and utilisation for nutrition in Nepal (page 44)
• Review of experiences and direction on complementary feeding in emergencies (page 48)

News & Views

• Demographic and Health Survey update core questionnaires (page 14)
• Global Technical Assistance Mechanism for Nutrition (GTAM) progress report (page 14)
• Guiding principles for sustainable healthy diets (page 14)
• Call for papers on prevention of non-communicable disease in humanitarian settings (page 15)
• Guidelines for the management of pregnant and breastfeeding women in the context of Ebola virus disease (page 15)
• ENN update (page 16)
• Guidance for nutrition in emergencies practitioners on COVID-19 (page 17)
• Management of At-risk Mothers and Infants under six months (MAMI): Update and direction (page 18)
• Concerns that The Lancet double-burden series may undermine moderate wasting treatment (page 19)
• Reflections on the United Nations draft Global Action Plan on wasting (page 21)

Research snapshots

• COVID-19 highlights the need for greater support for global health systems (page 49)
• Looming threat of COVID-19 infection in Africa: act collectively, and fast (page 49)
• Ebola virus disease and breastfeeding – comment (page 50)
• Nutritional care for patients with Ebola Virus Disease (page 50)
• Review of the use of antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation in low- and middle-income countries (page 51)
• Setting research priorities on multiple micronutrient supplementation in pregnancy (page 51)
• Systematic review of breastfeeding protection, promotion and support in humanitarian emergencies (page 52)
• Violent conflict and breastfeeding: The case of Iraq (page 52)
• The Lancet series on the double burden of malnutrition (page 53)
• New approach to simplifying and optimising acute malnutrition treatment in children aged 6 to 59 months: The OptiMA single-arm proof-of-concept trial in Burkina Faso (page 54)
• The effect of acute malnutrition on enteric pathogens, moderate-to-severe diarrhoea, and associated mortality (page 54)
• Prevention of child wasting: Results of a Child Health & Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) prioritisation exercise (page 55)
• Taller but thinner: trends in child anthropometry in Senegal 1990–2015 (page 55)