Existing health and community nutrition systems have the potential to deliver many nutrition interventions. However, the coverage of nutrition interventions across the delivery platforms of these systems has not been uniform.
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Community-level spillover effects of an intervention to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV transmission in rural Ethiopia
Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with adverse health and psychosocial outcomes.
Improving the impact of nutrition interventions requires adequate measurement of both reach and quality of interventions, but limited evidence exists on advancing coverage measurement.
India is home to over 6 million women’s groups, including self-help groups. There has been no evidence synthesis on whether and how such groups improve women’s and children’s health.
Introduction: Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become an important policy tool for increasing demand for key maternal and child health services in low/middle-income countries.
Evidence on the rate at which the double burden of malnutrition unfolds is limited. We quantified trends and inequalities in the nutritional status of adolescent girls and adult women in sub-Saharan Africa.
The role of the state government, civil society and programmes across sectors in stunting reduction in Chhattisgarh, India, 2006–2016
Childhood stunting has declined in India between 2006 and 2016, but not uniformly across all states. Little is known about what helped some states accelerate progress while others did not.
Key findings show that essential nutrition interventions are delivered through
health systems; scaling them up and closing data gaps in coverage and interventions can speed progress.
Introduction -- Millions of children in India still suffer from poor health and under-nutrition, despite substantial improvement over decades of public health programmes.