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Recommendations for improving the quality of CMAM programs in Angola based on experiences from Cunene province to support future work on a national scale up plan

The relationship between wasting and stunting: a retrospective cohort analysis of longitudinal data in Gambian children from 1976 to 2016

Abstract Background: The etiologic relationship between wasting and stunting is poorly understood, largely because of a lack of highqu...

How do we estimate case load for SAM and / or MAM in children 6 – 59 months in a given time period?

Beyond wasted and stunted—a major shift to fight child undernutrition

This is the word version of the Viewpoint article as published in the Lancet Journal of Child and Adolescent Heath. Abstract Child un...

Anthropometry at birth and at age of routine vaccination to predict mortality in the first year of life: A birth cohort study in Burkina Faso

Abstract Background The World Health Organization currently defines severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in infants aged under 6 months of...

Wet nursing for refugee orphans in Bangladesh

This article shares the practical realities of identifying wet nurses for young orphans where artificial feeding is not considered a sa...

Vitamin Content of Breast Milk From HIV-1-Infected Mothers Before and After Flash-Heat Treatment

Nutrition Cluster (IASC) - key things to know.

Livelihoods, livestock and humanitarian response: the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards

This Network Paper discusses livelihoods-based livestock programming and its role in humanitarian emergency response. It highlights the...

Infant formula: Home preparation of powdered infant formula - is it safe?

Powdered infant formula is not sterile - this has become a concern after the recent increase in the notification of serious cases and o...