Over the last 2 decades, many African countries have undergone dietary and nutrition transitions fueled by globalization, rapid urbanization, and development.
Background: Anemia and poor physical growth during adolescence have far-ranging consequences, but limited longitudinal evidence exists on how changes in these factors relate to changes in learning skills as adolescents mature.
Background: Meta-analyses show that small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNSs) reduce child stunting and wasting. Identification of subgroups who benefit most from SQ-LNSs may facilitate program design.
A systematic review and assessment of nutrition and health pathways that evaluate the impacts of social assistance programs on outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.
Background: Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNSs) have been shown to reduce the prevalence of child anemia and iron deficiency, but effects on other micronutrients are less well known.
Objectives: The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has profound negative impacts on people's lives, but little is known on the effect of COVID-19 on household food insecurity (HFI) in poor setting resources.
Objectives: Home to one in five adolescents globally and a tradition of marrying young, India faces a huge challenge of teenage births.
Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to have extensive effects on healthcare systems.
Objectives: Little is known about how the COVID-19 pandemic (C19) has affected food security and farmers’ livelihoods in Sri Lanka.
Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has significant potential implications for health systems, but little primary evidence is available on effects on health and nutrition services.
Objectives: Modeling studies have estimated impacts of potential service delivery disruptions due to COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child nutrition outcomes, but little is known about actual delivery status.
Antenatal care (ANC) is an important platform to deliver health and nutrition interventions during pregnancy but there is limited evidence on how both the number and content of ANC visits relate to birth outcomes.
These disruptions in educational and nutritional services have exacerbated households’ food insecurity in Nigeria.
Growth faltering is associated with adverse consequences during childhood and later life.
Little is known about the impact of food-assisted maternal and child health programs (FA-MCHN) on child wasting.
Background: Vitamin A deficiency is a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa.
No meta-analysis has examined the effect of dose and duration of zinc interventions on their impact on risk factors for type 2 diabetes (T2D) or cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Child undernutrition in India remains widespread. Data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3 and NFHS-4) suggest that wasting prevalence has increased while stunting prevalence has declined.
Background: India has high rates of child undernutrition and widespread lactovegetarianism.