Together for a world where all women and children benefit from good nutrition

Alive & Thrive (A&T) is an initiative to save lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy growth and development through optimal maternal nutrition, breastfeeding, and complementary feeding practices. Through application of its evidence-based framework and utilization of its robust network of partners, A&T builds momentum, breaks down barriers, and supports a better future for women and children.

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Programs in Action

Investing in Child Nutrition is a new, free, publicly available online course designed to provide guidance, skills, and practical information to health workers to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding and complementary feeding. The course is...

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Tools/Resources

The Cost of Not Breastfeeding Tool

Inadequate breastfeeding has significant costs – on lives and economies. A new tool from A&T shows how countries are impacted on a national level and calls for immediate scaling up of breastfeeding policies, programs, and interventions.

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Updates

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From supporting a multimedia campaign in Nigeria, to training medical college faculty in India, A&T works with partners to strengthen systems and build capacity for improved maternal, infant, and young child nutrition.

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