April 2022
Issue 67 / English
Editorials
- Editorial (page 3)
Field Articles
- Bangladesh: The rationalisation of nutrition services in Rohingya camps (page 22)
- Using routine data for nutrition accountability: Experience from the Nigeria Governors’ Forum Nutrition Scorecard (page 26)
- Generalised Oedema in COVID-19 Positive Children - A Case Series (page 30)
- The nutrition hotspot analysis: Prioritising intervention areas in the Sahel countries (page 33)
- Addressing child wellbeing among ‘skip-generation’ households in Cambodia (page 36)
- The early detection of child wasting in Indonesia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (page 40)
- GNC Technical Alliance experience of providing technical support to ARDI, a national NGO in Somalia (page 43)
- Sally Mugabe Children’s Hospital: A Snapshot (page 45)
Research
- Casual factors of wasting in Africa: What can be gleaned from available data? (page 79)
- Food systems for safe, nutritious and affordable diets in central Sahel (page 83)
Special section
- WaSt Special Section Editorial (page 49)
- The Wasting-Stunting Technical Interest Group: A summary of the work to date (page 51)
- Wasting and stunting risk factors in Somalian internally displaced person settlements (page 53)
- Finding the best criteria to identify children at high risk of mortality (page 56)
- The relationship between wasting and stunting in young children: A systematic review (page 57)
- Understanding sex differences in childhood malnutrition (page 58)
- A reflection on the 2021 Lancet Maternal & Child Nutrition Series through a WaSt lens (page 60)
- Exploring the relationships between wasting and stunting among a cohort of children under two years of age in Niger (page 62)
- Scaling up child wasting prevention and treatment in the context of stunting prevention in Indonesia (page 63)
- USAID’s investment in the WaSt TIG (page 66)
- Nutrition Impact and Positive Practices (NIPP) in Sudan (page 67)
- Promoting linear growth when treating child wasting (page 70)
- Survey data exploring the prevalence of concurrent wasting and stunting in Southern Angola, Huila and Cunene (page 72)
- Patterns of wasting and stunting in Venezuela (page 73)
News & Views
- ENN’s Research Partner Brief (page 5)
- Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 (page 5)
- Global Nutrition Cluster e-learning platform (page 6)
- National consultation on addressing acute malnutrition in India (page 6)
- Food Systems Summit (page 7)
- Infant and young child feeding in emergencies infographic series (page 7)
- Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies 2021 Annual Report (page 8)
- Simplified approaches website (page 8)
- Leveraging the ‘Banking on Nutrition’ partnership initiative in Africa (page 9)
- Book Review: ‘Within Our Grasp’ by Sharman Apt Russell (page 13)
- Prioritising Emergency Response Preparedness: Global Nutrition Cluster supports countries to plan for potential humanitarian crises (page 14)
- Link Nutrition Causal Analysis (NCA) for undernutrition: an analysis of recommendations (page 17)
- Ending the marketing of breastmilk substitutes: An amazing push to increase breastfeeding rates. (page 20)
Research snapshots
- Growth monitoring and mortality risk in low-birthweight infants (page 74)
- Treating high-risk moderate acute malnutrition using therapeutic food compared with nutrition counselling (page 74)
- Facilitators of ‘good’ and ‘poor’ practice in the distribution of infant formula: Evidence from the 2014-2016 refugee crisis in Europe (page 75)
- Nutrition and COVID-19 susceptibility? A systematic review (page 75)
- Food system transformation (page 76)
- Integration of severe acute malnutrition treatment in primary health care provided by community health workers in rural Niger (page 76)
- False banana: the potential of Ethiopia's enset to address food insecurity in the face of climate change? (page 77)
- Study protocol: Using locally produced foods to combat severe wasting in India (page 77)
- Mid-upper arm circumference tapes and measurement discrepancies: time to standardise (page 78)
- Saving children from man-made acute malnutrition in Tigray, Ethiopia: a call to action (page 78)
Report summaries
- A self-monitoring tool to improve nutrition counselling in Cambodia (page 86)
- Food systems and how they relate to malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries (page 86)
- Multi-sectoral nutrition programming; exploring impact (page 87)
- The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021 (page 87)
- An evidence gap map: food systems interventions for nutrition and food security outcomes (page 88)
- Risk factors associated with wasting and severe wasting among under-5 children in India (page 88)
- COVID-19 Learning Series (page 89)
- State of the evidence: Simplified approaches (page 89)
- Nutrition and climate change: a scoping review of current state of play Report Summary (page 90)
- Women’s nutrition (page 90)
- Global Nutrition Cluster annual report (page 91)
- Scaling up care for children with severe acute malnutrition in South Sudan. (page 91)
- Landscape analysis of simplified approaches to community-based management of acute malnutrition in the East and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) (page 92)
- Decentralising treatment in Mozambique: Findings from a pilot intervention on wasting (page 93)
- Evaluation of community-based management of acute malnutrition in Yemen (page 93)
- Considering the use of ‘stunting’ as an indicator in nutrition projects (page 94)
Other
- Dr Ferew Lemma (page 4)