October 2010 Investigators in Uganda enrolled HIV-unexposed, HIV-exposed, and HIV-infected children in an observational cohort study to determine the effect of breastfeeding on malaria risk. Results were published in October 2010 in the Journal of […]
Date: Mar 3, 2011 | Category: Research highlights
August 2010 A study in Zimbabwe assessed the feasibility of HIV-positive women expressing and heat-treating (EHT) all breastmilk given to their infants after 6 months of age. Results were presented in August in The Journal […]
Date: Oct 4, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
August 2010 Findings presented in the August Bulletin of the World Health Organization suggest that 20 percent of neonatal deaths in Indonesia could be averted through routine iron/folic acid (IFA) supplementation of pregnant women. Building […]
Date: Oct 4, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
June 2010 The June issue of Public Health Nutrition reported that researchers presented the impact of two different food interventions on anemia among children ages 6-24 months in Burkina Faso. Two groups of children were […]
Date: Oct 4, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
April 2010 An article in the April 2010 issue of Public Health Nutrition presents findings from a randomized controlled trail of an education intervention designed to improve complementary feeding practices in China. Children ages 2 […]
Date: Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
March 2010 An article in the March 2010 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases explores the hypothesis that lower frequency of mastitis among women who exclusively breastfeed (EBF) is the mechanism by which mother-to-child transmission of […]
Date: Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
May 2010 An article published in the May 2010 issue of The Journal of Nutrition presents the results of a trial that measured the effect of giving low-phytate maize, zinc supplements, or both on linear […]
Date: Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
June 2010 The June 2010 issue of The Journal of Nutrition revealed results from a trial in India that tested the nutritional impact of school meals fortified onsite with a micronutrient premix. Investigators randomly assigned […]
Date: Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
From July 18 through 23, 2010, more than 19,000 delegates gathered in Vienna, Austria, for XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010). The conference accepted 6,238 abstracts covering all aspects of HIV and AIDS. Following AIDS […]
Date: Jul 22, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
January 2010 Researchers conducted a double-blind, randomized trial in Brazil to determine the relative efficacy of iron drops and iron-fortified rice in curing mild anemia in children aged 6–24 months. Two groups of children received […]
Date: May 3, 2010 | Category: Research highlights