New resources to help agriculture project designers achieve improved nutrition The Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project is pleased to introduce a set of resources, including a Nutritional Impact Assessment Tool, to help agriculture […]
Date: Feb 12, 2011 | Category: News alerts
Welcome to the seventh 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: Oct 19, 2010 | Category: Newsletters
Global Health Council, PATH, Management Sciences for Health, and Bread for the World Invite you to a briefing on Nutrition – A key link to healthy mothers and healthy children Thursday, October […]
Date: Oct 13, 2010 | Category: News alerts
Washington, DC, October 8, 2010, 8:00 am to 4:30pm Attendees of USAID’s annual Mini-University spent a day with colleagues and peers learning evidence-based best practices and state-of-the-art information from a variety of technical themes across […]
Date: Oct 8, 2010 | Category: Events
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
Washington, DC, September 14–15, 2010 Designing Agricultural Investments that Support Improved Maternal and Child Nutrition IYCN Project Technical Director Dr. Tom Schaetzel participated in a plenary on September 14. Panelists discussed how agriculture programs can […]
Date: Sep 14, 2010 | Category: Events
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to join the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) and partners around the globe in celebrating World Breastfeeding Week August 1–7. This year’s theme emphasizes the need for maternity […]
Date: Aug 13, 2010 | Category: News alerts
Dear colleagues, During World Breastfeeding Week, please join us in reinforcing and sharing the importance of breastfeeding for preventing the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies and for improving the health and survival of […]
Date: Aug 13, 2010 | Category: News alerts