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Data use aids adaptation and continuation of maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) services in urban health facilities in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health services worldwide. Alive and Thrive (A&T) is testing MIYCN integration into non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) health services in eight facilities in Dhaka.
Background: Women's self-help groups (SHGs) have become one of the largest institutional platforms serving the poor.
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Bridging the gap between intent & interpretation: Enhancing survey questions on maternal & child nutrition intervention coverage through cognitive interviewing in India
Objectives: Designing survey questions that clearly and precisely communicate the question's intent and elicit responses based on the intended interpretation is critical but often undervalued.
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Teenage birth leads to short stature and anemia: Evidence from a longitudinal study of 10,000 girls in India
Objectives: Home to one in five adolescents globally and a tradition of marrying young, India faces a huge challenge of teenage births.
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A nutrition behaviour change intervention delivered through women's self-help groups in India is protective against depression and reduces time spent in market work
Objectives: Women's self-help groups (SHGs), which operate at large scale in India, are an important platform for delivering behaviour change communication (BCC) and social support interventions to rural women.
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A women's group-based nutrition behavior change intervention in India has limited impacts amidst implementation barriers and a concurrent national behavior change campaign
Objectives: Women's self-help groups (SHGs) have become one of the world's largest institutional platforms of the poor, reaching over 70 million Indian women in 2020.
Background: In response to the high levels of maternal nutrition in Uttar Pradesh, Alive & Thrive (A&T) aimed to strengthen the delivery of nutrition interventions through the government antenatal care platform, including leveraging ongoin
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Preconception micronutrient supplementation positively affects child development at 6 years of age: A randomized controlled trial in Vietnam
While there is growing evidence on the role of preconception nutrition for birth outcomes, very few studies have evaluated the effects of nutrition interventions during the preconception period on child development.
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Health systems strengthening efforts help to improve the delivery of maternal nutrition interventions in antenatal care in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India but gaps remain
Frontline workers (FLWs) deliver essential nutrition services to reduce maternal undernutrition in India, but coverage and quality remain sub-optimal.
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Strengthening nutrition interventions in antenatal care services had modest impacts on diet diversity, micronutrient intake, and breastfeeding in Uttar Pradesh, India
Interventions to improve maternal nutrition are poorly integrated into antenatal care (ANC) services in India.
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Using novel scenario-based assessments to examine feasibility of integrating preventive nutrition services through the primary healthcare system in Bangladesh
Bangladesh's National Nutrition Services aims to deliver nutrition services to pregnant women and children through the primary health care system.
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Missed opportunities for maternal nutrition interventions during antenatal care visits persist in Burkina Faso
High coverage of any antenatal care (ANC) and near-universal coverage of iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation is reported by nationally representative surveys in Burkina Faso.
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Why are adolescent mothers more likely to have stunted and underweight children than adult mothers? A path analysis using data from 30,000 Bangladeshi mothers, 1996–2014
Adolescent pregnancy is a major global concern due to its adverse effects on maternal and child health and wellbeing. Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy globally.
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Are data available to measure progress in the coverage of essential nutrition actions in South Asia? A review of demographic and health surveys in seven countries, 2005–2018
South Asian countries carry the largest burden of undernutrition globally. The World Health Organization has recommended a set of Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) to tackle all forms of malnutrition.
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Anemia in Indian men predicts fewer work hours and lower earnings: Evidence from nationally representative health and labor surveys
Anemia is globally recognized as an important public health problem in women and children, thus the consequences of anemia have predominantly been described in these two groups.
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Combined interventions targeting agriculture, gender and nutrition improve agriculture production and diet diversity more than individual interventions in Bangladesh
Secondary data analysis in Bangladesh has found associations across agricultural production, women's empowerment, and nutrition outcomes.
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Assessing dietary diversity in pregnant women: Relative validity of the list-based and open recall methods
Background: The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MMD-W) was validated as a proxy of micronutrient adequacy for non-pregnant women, with proposed data collection being either a list-based or a qualitative open recall method.
The program “Santé Nutritionnelle à Assise Communautaire à Kayes” (SNACK) in Mali aimed to improve child linear growth through a set of interventions targeted to mothers and children during pregnancy and up to the child's second birthday.
Frontline health workers (FLWs) are needed for delivering interventions at scale to reduce maternal and child undernutrition, but low- and middle-income countries often face inadequate FLW performance.