By Wasiu Afolabi, Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project in Nigeria This week is World Breastfeeding Week, and we have a major reason to celebrate the occasion in Nigeria. My country recently came to a […]
Date: Aug 6, 2010 | Category: Points of view
We are pleased to join the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action and partners around the globe to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week August 1–7, 2010. This year’s theme highlights the need for maternity services to protect, […]
Date: Aug 1, 2010 | Category: Events
April 2010 An article in the April 2010 issue of Public Health Nutrition presents findings from a randomized controlled trail of an education intervention designed to improve complementary feeding practices in China. Children ages 2 […]
Date: Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
March 2010 An article in the March 2010 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases explores the hypothesis that lower frequency of mastitis among women who exclusively breastfeed (EBF) is the mechanism by which mother-to-child transmission of […]
Date: Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
May 2010 An article published in the May 2010 issue of The Journal of Nutrition presents the results of a trial that measured the effect of giving low-phytate maize, zinc supplements, or both on linear […]
Date: Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
Venance Kouakou, IYCN technical advisor, shares his experience supporting social centers in improving nutrition for OVC. Social center directors from 21 communities received packages of scales, height measuring boards, mid-upper arm circumference tapes, cook stoves, […]
Date: Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Updates from the field
June 2010 The June 2010 issue of The Journal of Nutrition revealed results from a trial in India that tested the nutritional impact of school meals fortified onsite with a micronutrient premix. Investigators randomly assigned […]
Date: Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
The Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project joined the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), PATH, the World Health Organization (WHO), and mothers2mothers for a satellite session on Thursday, July 22, at the XVIII […]
Date: Jul 22, 2010 | Category: Events
From July 18 through 23, 2010, more than 19,000 delegates gathered in Vienna, Austria, for XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010). The conference accepted 6,238 abstracts covering all aspects of HIV and AIDS. Following AIDS […]
Date: Jul 22, 2010 | Category: Research highlights
Welcome to the sixth 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 19, 2010 | Category: Newsletters