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)