Breastfeeding protects infants in emergencies A message from USAID’s Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project and CARE’s Window of Opportunity Project August 4, 2009 Dear colleagues, The theme for this year’s World Breastfeeding Week […]
Date: Aug 4, 2009 | Category: News alerts
A message from the Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project August 3, 2009 Greetings from Nigeria, As World Breastfeeding Week kicks off, I’m in Abuja working to start up new IYCN Project activities. Last Friday, I attended a […]
Date: Aug 3, 2009 | Category: News alerts
July 2009 Linked below is a Call for Letters of Interest for the Alive & Thrive (A&T) Small Grants Program. Letters of Interest are due September 14, 2009. The A&T Small Grants Program aims to […]
Date: Jul 29, 2009 | Category: Announcements
Community-based approaches are an important part of a comprehensive program to improve infant feeding and nutrition. A wide range of partners are implementing innovative community-based strategies that are linking communities with vital health care services […]
Date: Jul 22, 2009 | Category: Announcements
Cape Town, South Africa, July 19-22, 2009 Infant Feeding and HIV: Science and Practice Sunday, July 19, 2009, 12:30 – 2:30 pm Margaret Waithaka, from the PATH Kenya office, participated in this IAS 2009 satellite […]
Date: Jul 22, 2009 | Category: Events
Welcome to the second 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: Jul 6, 2009 | Category: Newsletters
By Marcia Griffiths, MSc, President, The Manoff Group The malnutrition many children in poor countries experience does not occur overnight. It is the product of months of inadequate growth that leaves them both underweight and […]
Date: Jul 6, 2009 | Category: Points of view
At the Litsoeneng Health Centre, a small clinic in a remote area of Lesotho, Adelina, 40, a nurse, and Mabeata, 62, a community health worker in the nearby village of Khopolo, proudly tell the story […]
Date: Jul 6, 2009 | Category: Success stories
Makatleho Masoabi, IYCN Country Coordinator, shares her experience with pretesting Lesotho’s new infant and young child feeding training curriculum. In April, I worked with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to pretest Lesotho’s new […]
Date: Jul 4, 2009 | Category: Updates from the field
February 2009 Liquid iron supplements have done little to reduce high rates of iron deficiency anemia among young children in developing countries, largely due to poor adherence. Studies have shown that home fortification of regularly […]
Date: Jul 4, 2009 | Category: Research highlights