The BRINDA project is a multiagency and multicountry collaboration that was formed to improve micronutrient assessment and to better characterize anemia. Findings from this project can inform guidelines and strategies to prevent and control micronutrient deficiencies and anemia globally.
In this paper, a household wealth index is developed and tested for participants in the cluster-randomized Sanitation, Hygiene, Infant Nutrition Efficacy trial in rural Zimbabwe.
The objective of this Food and Nutrition Bulletin supplement is to focus attention on the need to integrate actions to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition.
This supplement brings together papers focusing on the critical 1000 days of human development from pregnancy until 2 years of age.
The objective of this study was to document the achievements, challenges, lessons learned, and management responses associated with national fortification projects in Morocco, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
The objective of this study was to provide an overview of efficacy, effectiveness, economics of food fortification and biofortification, and status of and challenges faced by large-scale food fortification programs in low- and middle-income countries.
Lack of data and tools to understand and design for the optimal mix of interventions, across groups and over time, is a key limitation in managing this inherent tension. This series of articles proposes a way forward to address this gap.
This investigation used data from focused ethnographic studies in five rural counties in Kenya to determine whether the concept of “special foods for infants and young children” exists in the different ethnic groups in these areas as an identifiable component of cultural beliefs and knowledge.
Iron deficiency anemia is a major public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a complementary food fortified with sodium iron EDTA plus either ferrous fumarate or ferric pyrophosphate to combat iron deficiency anemia in preschool-age children in a highly malaria endemic region.
This paper reports on case studies supported by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)-UNICEF USI Partnership Project to investigate processed food industry use of adequately iodised salt in contrasting national contexts.
