Maternal, newborn and child health
- Transition to replacement feeding by HIV-positive women who breastfeed
- LINKAGES Project, 2004
- Recommended reading
- This document, published by the Linkages Project, provides guidelines for HIV-positive women who choose to transition from breastfeeding to replacement feeding at about six months. It notes that infa...
- Breastfeeding: frequently asked questions series
- LINKAGES Project, 2004
- Recommended reading
- This series from the Linkages Project provides programmatic guidance on breastfeeding and maternal and infant nutrition, focusing on developing countries. The first three documents respectively cover ...
- Women’s nutrition throughout the life cycle and in the context of HIV and AIDS: training of trainers module
- N. Ntombela; M. Stone-Jimenez; J. Ross; L. Martin / LINKAGES Project, 2005
- Recommended reading
- Produced by the Linkages Project, this training module is intended to provide instructors with the basic theory to train health workers on women’s nutrition, with a focus on the complete life cycle. I...
- Essential health sector actions to improve maternal nutrition in Africa
- S.L. Huffman; K.S. Ndure; E.R. Zehner / LINKAGES Project, 2001
- Recommended reading
- This paper, published by the Linkages Project and the Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care at Makerere University, examines the prevalence, causes, and consequences of maternal malnutrition in A...
- Facts for feeding series
- LINKAGES Project, 2004
- Recommended reading
- Updated in 2004, this series of factsheets from the Linkages Project provides practical guidance on nutrition of infants and young children in developing countries. The first factsheet covers birth, t...
- Infant feeding options
- LINKAGES Project, 2004
- The risks of HIV transmission to an infant through breastfeeding are high, with policy makers and health care providers struggling to develop appropriate guidance on infant feeding for HIV-positive w...
- Spotlight on PMTCT: reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV among women who breastfeed
- LINKAGES Project, 2004
- This LINKAGES spotlight offers guidance to programme managers and health workers on how to support HIV-positive mothers who choose to breastfeed. This will help minimise the risk of transmission while...
- Successful community nutrition programming: lessons from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
- LINKAGES Project, 2002
- This report presents the main findings of a series of assessments of successful community-based nutrition programs carried out in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The overall aim of the assessments was to ...
- Can marketing of multiple vitamin/mineral supplements reach the poor?: the VitalDía project, Bolivia
- S.L. Huffman / LINKAGES Project, 2002
- This report documents the qualitative research conducted for the development of a multiple micronutrient supplement (VitalDía) marketed to reach low income women in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It also presen...
- Recommended feeding and dietary practices to improve infant and maternal nutrition
- LINKAGES Project, 1999
- This paper identifies a set of recommended feeding and dietary practices to break cycle of poor health and nutrition that passes from generation to generation, and it provides the scientific evidence ...
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