January 2010 In a study published in The Journal of Nutrition in January 2010, researchers used data from the Bangladesh Nutrition Surveillance Project from 2000 to 2005 to explore the relationship between rice and non-rice […]
Date: May 3, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
February 2010 An article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases in February 2010 presents an analysis of data from the Zambia Exclusive Breastfeeding Study that the authors undertook to determine an age at which weaning safely […]
Date: May 3, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
February 2010 In a study published in February 2010 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, investigators compared the efficacy of multivitamin supplements delivering a single recommended daily allowance (RDA) versus supplements delivering multiple RDAs […]
Date: May 3, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
January 2009 After the Niger food crisis of 2004-2005, programs for community-based treatment of acute malnutrition found that the prevalence of acute malnutrition, although reduced from the level during the crisis, remained unacceptably high. In […]
Date: Feb 11, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
September 2009 After implementing the Kisumu Breastfeeding Study (KiBS) for one and a half years, the study’s safety board noted that infants had high rates of diarrhea at age 6 months—the age at which their […]
Date: Feb 11, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
January 2010 An article in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes analyzed the risk of serious gastroenteritis in HIV-exposed infants who participated in two different trials in the same […]
Date: Feb 11, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
June 2009 The Zambia Exclusive Breastfeeding Study randomized HIV-positive mothers to wean their infants at four months (intervention) or to continue breastfeeding for as long as they wished (control). Although nearly 40% of the intervention […]
Date: Oct 1, 2009 | Category: Research highlights
July 2009 The Breastfeeding, Antiretroviral, and Nutrition (BAN) study investigated the efficacy of giving either maternal HAART or daily nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV during 24 weeks of exclusive breastfeeding and a four-week […]
Date: Oct 1, 2009 | Category: Research highlights
August 2009 In a cluster randomized trial published in the Lancet in August 2009, investigators evaluated the impact of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy on health worker skills and support, care-seeking practices, […]
Date: Oct 1, 2009 | Category: Research highlights
October 2009 In a study to be published in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin in October, researchers calculated the per-child cost of school feeding programs in Lesotho, Kenya, The Gambia, and Malawi. By combining their […]
Date: Oct 1, 2009 | Category: Research highlights