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: In many low- and middle-income countries, the prevalence of energy and nutrient deficiencies is high among pregnant women.
Research finds that child linear growth during and after the first 1000 days is positively associated with intellectual functioning and mental health in school-age children in Vietnam.
Background: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic may substantially affect health systems, but little primary evidence is available on disruption of health and nutrition services.
Background: Maternal nutrition interventions are inadequately integrated into antenatal care (ANC).
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.
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: 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.
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.
Background: Evidence suggests that iron deficiency (ID) affects cognitive performance, as measured in behavior.
Interaction within mothers’ social networks can theoretically diffuse messages from interventions and campaigns into norms and practices for infant and young child feeding (IYCF).
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs are widely used to reduce household food insecurity and maternal and child undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries.