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.
Water security is a powerful concept that is still in its early days in the field of nutrition.
Background: Simple proxy indicators are needed to assess and monitor micronutrient intake adequacy of vulnerable populations.
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).
Background: Healthy diets can help reduce undernutrition, morbidity, and mortality. However, evidence on the accessibility and affordability of recommended diets is limited, particularly in poor-resource settings including India.
Evidence on child linear growth, developmental epigenetics, and brain and neurocognitive development shows that some effects of undernourishment early in life may be irreversible.
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.
Background
Iron-biofortified staple foods can improve iron status and resolve iron deficiency. However, whether improved iron status from iron biofortification can improve physical performance remains unclear.
Objective
Tubaramure increased household food security and energy and micronutrient consumption, and maternal and child dietary diversity in Burundi.
Background
Social and behavior change communication interventions are integral to improving dietary and care practices, but evidence on the impact of the combination and intensity of these interventions in different contexts is scarce.
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.
Improvements in economic conditions over a decade in India led to declines in undernutrition as well as increases in overweight among adolescents and women.
Preschool-based nutrition-sensitive BCC intervention improved child nutrition in food-insecure Malawi.