Challenging Assumptions: Breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS
Summary: This policy brief discusses the benefits of breastfeeding in light of the risk of perinatal HIV transmission. Challenging Assumptions: Breastfeeding...
USAID's Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
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Combating Malnutrition: What Can Be Done?
This brief describes prevalent forms of undernutrition, offers effective approaches for preventing malnutrition, and provides cost estimates for implementing...
Community theater for improved nutrition: A guide for program managers and theater groups
Summary: Offers recommendations for program managers and community theater groups to integrate maternal, infant, and young child nutrition content into...
Comprehensive Framework for Action
Summary: The Comprehensive Framework offers a six-point plan for action to address the global food security crisis and provides a range of options for...
Consolidated Report of Six-Country Review of Breastfeeding Programmes
Summary: This report documents the factors that influence breastfeeding support, promotion, and protection program outcomes; general lessons learned from the...
Counseling card: Risks of Infant Feeding Options for HIV-positive Mothers
Summary: The IYCN Project created this counseling card for use by health workers to help HIV-positive mothers visualize the relative risk of breastfeeding,...
Counseling Supervision Checklist and Guidelines
Summary: A tool for health worker supervisors to measure health workers’ knowledge and record their behaviors during counseling sessions. Periodic use of the...
Country-specific approaches for infant feeding and HIV activities
Summary: This fact sheet summarizes IYCN’s approach to designing and implementing infant feeding and HIV activities. Country-specific approaches for infant...
Designing by Dialogue: A Program Planners’ Guide to Consultative Research for Improving Young Child Feeding
Summary: This manual provides tools for program managers to design, carry out, and analyze the results of formative, consultative research and to use those...
Diarrheal Disease: Solutions to Defeat a Global Killer
Summary: This report from PATH highlights the broad array of lifesaving prevention and treatment solutions for addressing diarrheal disease in the developing...