Welcome to the third issue of the IYCN Update, a newsletter from USAID’s Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project. Distributed four times per year, each issue offers updates on the latest research, new resources, and project news.
Date: Sep 6, 2009 | Category: Newsletters
For Flora Bertizzolo, 30, a health and nutrition program officer at the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), getting food to children in need in Madagascar is her first priority. She and her colleagues at […]
Date: Sep 6, 2009 | Category: Success stories
For this year’s World Breastfeeding Week, the IYCN Project joined partners around the globe to highlight the critical role of breastfeeding before and during emergencies worldwide. The theme was Breastfeeding: A Vital Emergency Response. Are you […]
Date: Aug 22, 2009 | Category: Events
Blantyre, Malawi, August 12-16, 2009 This conference featured optimal infant feeding practices and other solutions to prevent malnutrition and address diarrheal disease in the developing world. Visit the CAPGAN website to learn more. Highlights included: […]
Date: Aug 16, 2009 | Category: Events
In an interview with CARE’s Abigail Beeson, a technical coordinator, and Mary Lung’aho, a special advisor, the two provide some insights into the programmatic challenges and lessons learned from their time spent working to integrate […]
Date: Aug 9, 2009 | Category: Q&As
Rose Mireille Exumé, IYCN country coordinator in Haiti, shares her experience during World Breastfeeding Week in Grand Goâve and La Gonâve Island. On Thursday, August 6, I was in Grand Goâve, a small city in […]
Date: Aug 9, 2009 | Category: Updates from the field
When Patricia Nawa was pregnant with her fifth child, she tested positive for HIV. The 37-year-old mother in the urban Zambian township of Kanyama faced a frightening question that so many mothers-to-be in her community […]
Date: Aug 8, 2009 | Category: Success stories
New collection of innovative community-based approaches to promote infant feeding A message from the Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project August 7, 2009 Dear colleagues, Together with our partners, PATH, […]
Date: Aug 7, 2009 | Category: News alerts
Good infant feeding practices prevent diarrheal disease A message from USAID’s Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project and PATH August 6, 2009 Dear colleagues, As we continue to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, the IYCN […]
Date: Aug 6, 2009 | Category: News alerts
Four ways you can help women with HIV during World Breastfeeding Week A message from the Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation August 5, 2009 Dear […]
Date: Aug 5, 2009 | Category: News alerts