January 2009 Anemia is common among HIV-positive children and has been associated with rapid disease progression and risk of death. While anemia has many causes, iron deficiency also commonly occurs in areas with a high […]
Date: Mar 3, 2009 | Category: Research highlights
March 2009 An IYCN assessment found that HIV-positive mothers in Kenya are putting their babies at increased risk of HIV infection because they stop exclusive breastfeeding too early. To give children a chance for a […]
Date: Mar 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
March 2009 When mothers are malnourished, their babies have a higher chance of suffering from malnutrition. It’s a vicious cycle that nutrition advocates have been trying to combat in Madagascar. Despite national efforts to improve […]
Date: Mar 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
March 2009 Last month, the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood and CARE joined a distinguished group of advocates to unveil Mothers Day Every Day. The campaign aims to accelerate progress toward safe pregnancy and […]
Date: Mar 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
March 2009 We are pleased to welcome Tom Schaetzel as our new technical director. Dr. Schaetzel will lead the project’s technical initiatives and global leadership activities. Before joining our team, he was the nutrition adviser […]
Date: Mar 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
March 2009 A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger was published in February 2009 by a broad-based coalition of nongovernmental organizations, advocacy groups, and religious organizations calling for the Obama administration and Congress […]
Date: Mar 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
Dear colleagues, On behalf of the Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project, we are pleased to announce the launch of our new website. Please visit the website to learn more about our global efforts […]
Date: Feb 15, 2009 | Category: News alerts
February 2009 The 2009 Development Marketplace grant competition, administered by the World Bank, invites proposals from all South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) under the theme “Family […]
Date: Feb 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements
In a small, rural village in Lesotho, Mamorena Namane, 30, proudly shows off her big baby boy outside her modest three-room house. With his chubby legs and broad cheeks, the baby—her second child—is a picture […]
Date: Jan 6, 2009 | Category: Success stories
January 2009 Volunteer health workers like Mamorena Namane help the IYCN Project reach out to communities. Mamorena is from rural Lesotho, a country in southern Africa, where more than one-third of children younger than five […]
Date: Jan 2, 2009 | Category: Announcements