Stunting in protracted emergencies discussion paper 2017

Chloe Angood

WaSt TIG - the work so far

We have had three phases of work thus far and are currently in the fourth. A special section in FEX summarises a lot of the work of the WaSt TIG so far as well as experiences...

Wasting and Stunting: Evidence Generation

Within the WaSt TIG, we continue to generate evidence to increase the understanding of the relationship between wasting and stunting and what this tells us about their...

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Small Vulnerable Newborns contribute to the burden of underweight, wasted & stunted infants and children worldwide. Health and nutrition communities need to join forces. Our...

FEX: Antenatal malaria prophylaxis plus iron and folic acid for child nutrition outcomes

View this article as a pdf This is a summary of the following paper: Godha D, Tharaney M, Nanama S et al. (2022) The association between iron and folic acid supplementation...

Resource: Best Practice in Preventing Child Wasting within the Wider Context of Undernutrition

This brief is based on work since 2014 by the Wasting Stunting Technical Interest Group (WaSt TIG)3 and the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN). It updates previous reports on...

en-net: Teen/adolescent pregnancy and under-nutrition

Hi, is there a documented link between rates and severity of under-nutrition (for mothers, infants and children), and the age at which a girl/woman first becomes pregnant? If...

en-net: New Paper on WaSt from Ghana

Dear all I just came across this new paper on the relationship between wasting and stunting, and concurrence in Ghana. I havn't read it in detail yet but wanted to share...

FEX: The relationship between wasting and stunting: a retrospective cohort analysis of longitudinal data in Gambian children from 1976 to 2016

View this article as a pdf Summary of research1 Location: Gambia What we know: There are gaps in understanding the relationship between wasting and stunting that often...

Blog post: Wasting and Stunting-making progress on understanding the links

Some of you will know that ENN has been coordinating a project with the expert steer of around 30 child growth and nutrition specialists from academia, donor and operational...

Video: Best Practice and Prevention of Child Wasting Within the Wider Context of Undernutrition

ENN recently published a brief entitled: Best Practice and Prevention of Child Wasting Within the Wider Context of Undernutrition (read here). The brief is based on work since...

FEX: Wasting and Stunting Technical Interest Group: two new publications from the research-influencing sub-working group

View this article as a pdf The research-influencing sub-working group of the Wasting and Stunting Technical Interest Group (WaSt-TIG) has recently published two papers aimed...

en-net: MSF papers on convalescent feeding

I think these two papers (links below) partly contribute to the question ranked 6th in our WaSt prioritisation exercise: Can nutrition convalescent support prevent both...

FEX: Livestock and nutrition: Summary of a discussion paper for the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards

View this article as a pdf By Kate Sadler Dr Kate Sadler is a public nutritionist with over 20 years of experience in the design, management, evaluation and research of...

FEX: Patterns of wasting and stunting in Venezuela

View this article as a pdf This is a summary of the following paper: Raffalli S & Villalobos C (2021) Recent patterns of stunting and wasting in Venezuelan children:...

FEX: WaSt Special Section Editorial

View this article as a pdf Dear readers, Our aim with this special section of Field Exchange (FEX) is to convey to you the scope of work that the Wasting and Stunting...

Blog post: 2023: What's ahead for ENN

A critical year - Nigel Tricks "It's 2023, and we have 7 years left to end all forms of malnutrition, 'including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed...

NEX: Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), environmental enteropathy, nutrition, and early child development: making the links

Francis M. Ngure et. Al. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1308, Every Child's Potential: Integrating Nutrition and Early Childhood Development...