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October 2020

Issue 63 / English

Editorials

• Briefing note on child wasting in South Asia (FEX 63) (page 0)
• Editorial (page 3)

Field Articles

• Integration of essential nutrition interventions into primary healthcare in Pakistan to prevent and treat wasting: A story of change (page 13)
• Wasting prevention and treatment - central to stunting reduction in Pakistan (page 17)
• Experiences of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) programme in Nepal: from pilot to scale up (page 22)
• One UN for nutrition in Afghanistan - Translating global policy into action: A policy shift to tackle wasting (page 26)
• Integration of management of children with severe acute malnutrition in paediatric inpatient facilities in India (page 34)
• Managing at risk mothers and infants under six months in India – no time to waste (page 38)
• Supporting healthy growth in infants in low-resource settings in Mumbai, India (page 43)
• Community management of acute malnutrition in Rajasthan, India (page 49)
• Development and use of alternative nutrient-dense foods for management of acute malnutrition in India (page 53)
• Adaptations to CMAM programming in Cox’s Bazar in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (page 57)
• Integrating screening for acute malnutrition into the vitamin A supplementation campaign in the Rohingya camps during the COVID-19 pandemic (page 61)
• Delivery of maternal nutrition interventions at scale and mainstreaming into the health system in Bangladesh (page 64)
• Previous FEX articles of relevance for wasting in South Asia (page 98)
• Thiamine Deficiency Remains an Urgent Public Health Problem (page 100)

Research

• Prevention of child wasting in Asia: Possible role for multiple micronutrient supplementation in pregnancy (page 76)
• Concordance between weight-for-height z-score (WHZ) and mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) for the detection of wasting among children in Bangladesh host communities (page 81)

News & Views

• South Asia and child wasting – unravelling the conundrum (page 7)
• Nutrition Exchange South Asia issues on maternal nutrition and complementary feeding (page 30)
• South Asia Technical Advisory Group on Wasting (page 31)
• WFP win Nobel Peace Prize (page 31)
• Tackling child wasting: A review of costing tools and an agenda for the future (page 33)
• Improving maternal nutrition in South Asia: Implications for child wasting prevention efforts (page 92)
• UN Global Action Plan (GAP) Framework for Child Wasting and the Asia and Pacific Region (page 96)

Research snapshots

• Factors influencing maternal nutrition practices in a large scale maternal, neonatal and child health programme in Bangladesh (page 68)
• Integrating nutrition interventions into an existing maternal, neonatal and child health programme in Bangladesh (page 68)
• Severe wasting among Indian infants under six months of age (page 69)
• The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the social, economic and health status of low-income populations in India (page 69)
• Burden of child and maternal malnutrition and trends in states of India 1990-2017 (page 70)
• Effect of supplementation during pregnancy and lactation on the nutritional status of infants in Pakistan (page 70)
• Impact on birth weight and child growth of women’s groups with and without transfers of food or cash during pregnancy in Nepal (page 71)
• Maternal profiles and social determinants of severe acute malnutrition among children under five years of age: A case-control study in Nepal (page 71)
• Aiming higher for maternal and child nutrition in South Asia (page 72)
• Birthweight and feeding practices are associated with child growth outcomes in South Asia (page 72)
• Factors associated with wasting among children under five years old in South Asia: Implications for action (page 73)
• Improving women’s nutrition is imperative for the rapid reduction of childhood stunting in South Asia (page 73)
• Wasting in the wider context of undernutrition: An ENN position paper (page 73)
• Causes and consequences of child growth failure in low- and middle-income countries (page 74)
• Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality (page 74)
• Development of complementary foods for moderately wasted children to improve gut microbiota status (page 75)
• Duodenal microbiota in stunted undernourished children with enteropathy (page 75)
• Early childhood linear growth failure in low- and middle-income countries (page 75)

Research summaries

• Effectiveness of programme approaches to improve the coverage of maternal nutrition interventions in South Asia (page 85)
• The link between foetal and childhood nutrition and adult non-communicable disease: lessons from birth cohort studies in India (page 86)
• Child wasting and concurrent stunting in low- and middle-income countries (page 88)

Report summaries

• Growth faltering in early infancy: highlights from a two-day scientific consultation (page 89)
• Lives upended - how COVID-19 threatens the futures of 600 million South Asian children (page 89)
• Report of the South Asia ‘Stop stunting: No time to Waste’ conference (page 90)
• Report of the South Asia ‘Stop stunting: Power of Maternal Nutrition’ conference (page 90)
• Low birth weight estimates: Levels and trends 2000–2015 (page 91)
• Report of the South Asia ‘Stop stunting: Improving Young Children’s Diets’ conference (page 91)
• Wasting in South Asia: Building the evidence on policy and programme response (page 91)