Objectives: A national scale-up of an integrated facility and community-based delivery of iron and folic acid (IFA) supplements in Nepal spanned almost ten years through the Iron Intensification Program (IIP), over which time national coverage of IFA in pregnant women increased f...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20951
Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Drew Halliday, Katarina Begus, Helen Maris, Maria Papademetriou, Nick Everdell, Momodou Darboe, Andrew Prentice, Sophie Moore & Clare Elwell·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Appropriate nutrition in the first 1000 days of life is essential for optimal brain development and function. Neurobehavioral assessments of cognitive function can only detect effects of nutritional deficiencies once they reach the point of observable behaviour, thus...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20952
Objectives: Women in Kenya are at high risk of multiple micronutrient deficiencies due to low intake through monotonous diets. Country-specific food based dietary recommendations (FBRs) facilitate dietary improvement. Main objective was to develop and evaluate FBRs based on the e...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20953
Objectives: Further analysis of KDHS 2008/09. Methods: The study uses data from the 2008-09 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, involving children aged 24-35 months, a weighted sample of 1029 children. Descriptive and logistic regression analyses were conducted. The outcome vari...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20954
Objectives: In Ethiopia, 44% of children under five years-of-age are stunted (i.e., height-for-age (HAZ) below -2SD). This is considered a major public health concern by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health’s National Nutrition Plan. Future efforts to reduce stunting depend largely o...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20955
Objectives: The broad objective was to assess components of the supply chain aiming at identifying facilitating factors and barriers to uninterrupted availability of IFA, oxytocic drugs, misoprostol, magnesium sulphate and calcium with a view of formulating innovative solutions....
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20956
Objectives: Breastfeeding is an evidence-based cost-effective means of preventing malnutrition in early childhood, thereby improving the chances of survival. Despite its nutritional advantages breastfeeding has been sub-optimal in Nigeria, due to misconceptions. This study assess...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20957
Objectives: High levels of early child malnutrition in developing countries are of concern not only because they affect later growth but because they may affect mental and motor development. This systematic review updates and goes beyond previous ones by answering two important q...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20958
Sofie Aage, Nick Kiraly, Kassarai Da Costa, Stine Byberg, Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen, Ane Bærent Fisker, Peter Aaby & Christine Stabell Benn·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Neonatal vitamin A (NVAS) is currently being considered as policy in low income countries at risk of deficiency. We conducted NVAS trials in Guinea-Bissau and found sex-differential effects of NVAS on mortality, the effect being negative for females. We examined the e...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20959
Objectives: Anemia is a problem of public health significance in Uganda. In 2001, 71% of children under-five were anemic. In 2011, the prevalence of anemia had declined to 50% among children. This large decline in anemia prevalence has prompted questions of what factors have cont...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20960
Objectives: The Government of India introduced guidelines on therapeutic supplementation of zinc in the management of childhood diarrhoea in the year 2007, but programmatic constraints delayed its introduction into public health programs. Micronutrient Initiative, with support fr...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20961
Objectives: CLVs play an important role in prevention and treatment of diarrhoea. However, only a small proportion of the cases treated by these semi-literate CLVs are reported and fed into the Health Management Information Systems (HMIS). Micronutrient Initiative capacitated and...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20962
Objectives: The potential adverse impact of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMN) versus iron-folic acid (IFA) on perinatal mortality is concerned. It has been speculated that MMN might survive frail fetuses to late pregnancy or early infancy, resulting in an incr...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20963
Objectives: Malnutrition remains a public health problem in the Philippines, particularly among infants and young children and in time of disasters and calamities. The study aimed to develop and utilize locally available, affordable and culturally acceptable raw materials for the...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20964
Objectives: This study aimed to test the nutritional quality of white haricot bean-maize complementary food needing household food processing to decrease phytate content and enhance the bioavailability of iron and zinc. Methods: Community consultation was conducted with mothers t...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20965