HIV Vertical Transmission Study
Summary: These journal articles, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and The Lancet, describe the...
USAID's Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Topics: Research
Household Rice Expenditure and Maternal and Child Nutritional Status in Bangladesh
Summary: This study, published in the Journal of Nutrition in November 2009, sought to characterize the relationship between household expenditures on rice...
Improved adherence and anaemia cure rates with flexible administration of micronutrient Sprinkles: a new public health approach to anaemia control
Summary: This article, published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition in September 2007, examines the effectiveness of daily and flexible Sprinkles...
Inclusion of Fathers in an Intervention to Promote Breastfeeding: Impact on Breastfeeding Rates
Summary: This article, published in the Journal of Human Lactation in November 2008, revealed results of a controlled clinical trial in Brazil on the impact of...
Iron and folic acid supplements and reduced early neonatal deaths in Indonesia
Summary: This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization in December 2009, reveals results of a study on the effect of antenatal care...
Iron supplementation for reducing morbidity and mortality in children with HIV
Summary: This Cochrane Reviews article, published in April 2009, examined available evidence on the impact of the intervention on health outcomes of...
Iron-Fortified Rice Is As Efficacious As Supplemental Iron Drops in Infants and Young Children
Summary: The study, published in the Journal of Nutrition in November 2009, found that rice fortified with iron-containing Ultra Rice, developed by PATH, was...
Neither a Zinc Supplement nor Phytate-Reduced Maize nor Their Combination Enhance Growth of 6- to 12-Month-Old Guatemalan Infants
Summary: The objective of this study, published in the Journal of Nutrition in May 2010, was to determine the effect of supplementing low-phytate maize, a...
Post-intervention growth of Malawian children who received 12-mo dietary complementation with a lipid-based nutrient supplement or maize-soy flour
Summary: This study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in January 2009, followed a population of Malawian children to assess whether the...
Prenatal food supplementation fortified with multiple micronutrients increases birth length: a randomized controlled trial in rural Burkina Faso
Summary: This study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in October 2009, sought to determine whether a prenatal multiple...