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May 2023

Issue 69 / English

Editorials

• Editorial (page 3)

Field Articles

• Adapting the MAMI Care Pathway Package in India: Progress and direction (page 13)
• National social assistance programmes to improve child nutrition: Lessons from Burundi, Ethiopia and Tanzania (page 16)
• A digital messaging intervention and remote data collection to support ECD & nutrition: Telangana, India (page 20)
• Emergency response preparedness: Rollout of the Global Nutrition Cluster’s toolkit for country coordination teams (page 24)

Research

• Affordable and nutritious child feeding in Nigeria: Applying Cost of the Diet modelling (page 39)
• The cost of delivering severe wasting treatment in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (page 43)

News & Views

• Some thoughts on the passing of Professor George Patton (page 2)
• Free course: Operational research for humanitarians (page 4)
• The World Health Organization’s Nutrition Data Portal (page 4)
• En-net summary (page 5)
• Tools for Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) (page 5)
• Embedding nutrition within the Farmer Field School approach: Experiences from Malawi (page 6)
• Research gaps and priorities in nutrition in emergencies (page 10)
• Are calls to action global health nonsense? (page 12)

Research snapshots

• How do children with severe underweight and wasting respond to treatment? (page 27)
• Climate change and food security: The view from sub-Saharan Africa (page 28)
• Hot weather impacts infant feeding practices in low- and middle-income countries (page 29)
• Research priorities for nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (page 29)
• Exploring updates to the Lives Saved Tool for maternal and child nutrition outcomes (page 30)
• Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements for severe malnutrition (page 30)
• Fortified balanced energy protein supplementation for pregnant women in Burkina Faso (page 31)
• Supplementary feeding and infection control in pregnant adolescents in Sierra Leone (page 31)
• How best to predict child mortality using different anthropometric indices? (page 32)
• Building upon the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (page 33)
• COVID-19 adaptations to outpatient nutrition programmes in East Africa (page 33)
• Ethical considerations for international research in low- and middle-income countries (page 34)
• Using childhood body composition to predict adult disease risk: A systematic review (page 34)
• The Lancet 2023 series on breastfeeding: Unveiling the predatory tactics of the formula milk industry (page 35)
• Human milk banking: Attitudes and practices in rural Türkiye (page 36)
• Integrating maternal nutrition into antenatal care services in African and Asian contexts (page 36)
• Effectiveness of a simplified protocol in Mali: An observational study (page 37)
• Relaxation interventions for maternal and neonatal outcomes: A systematic review (page 37)
• Highlighting two upcoming study protocols on severe acute malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa (page 38)
• Preconception and periconception interventions to prevent adverse birth outcomes (page 38)

Report summaries

• Postscript - Progress on monitoring and enforcing the Code in Cambodia: New developments to ban digital marketing (page 46)
• The threat of social media towards exclusive breastfeeding: The Cambodia perspective (page 46)
• 2022 Global Nutrition Report (page 48)
• The impact of climate change on nutrition: Learning from four countries (page 48)
• Precision nutrition in low- and middle-income settings (page 49)
• Undernourished and overlooked: A global nutrition crisis in adolescent girls and women (page 50)