About a year ago, Bharat Bhai, 47, decided to run for election in Baran Village, a small village of about 1,200 residents in the Bharuch District of Gujarat State, situated on the west coast of India.

Dec 15 2022
The scale-up of a package of maternal nutrition interventions in five of Ethiopia’s 10 regions is progressing well, stakeholders said during recent interviews. The package was developed with Alive & Thrive technical assistance.

Dec 15 2022
Companies across Nigeria are implementing workplace breastfeeding and lactation support programs thanks to sustained advocacy supported by Alive & Thrive, which advocates say is changing attitudes, too, at multiple levels.

Dec 15 2022
Viewed from outside, the ofi nuts factory in Pleiku, Viet Nam, is unremarkable, like many factories: a collection of large warehouses sitting on about five hectares on the outskirts of a city.

Dec 09 2022
After a year of intensive development and pilot testing, the Government of Bangladesh has added a new module for growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) to its core mobile application-based service delivery platform for frontline workers.

Dec 09 2022
An intervention leveraging technology to improve quality of health care service in community settings has won an MIT Solve Novel Measurement for Performance Improvement in Primary Healthcare Challenge award.

Dec 09 2022
Seven state governments committed to partner with Alive & Thrive to scale up nutrition interventions as the country continues to advance its multisectoral agenda of improving national nutrition indicators.

Dec 08 2022
Health leaders from Cambodia and Laos learned about the Centers of Excellence for Breastfeeding initiative in Viet Nam and shared their insights and experiences for improving breastfeeding and newborn care ser

Sep 16 2022
A second cohort of nutrition leaders in West and Central Africa has completed the blended learning program aimed at building their capacity to implement programs to improve rates of exclusive breastfeeding using social and behavior change.

Sep 16 2022
Integrating maternal nutrition in antenatal care (ANC) platforms is feasible – and improves nutrition practices, according to the results of Alive & Thrive’s implementation research in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and India.

Sep 16 2022
After years of advocacy by multiple partners, the Government of Burkina Faso signed a revised decree in June on implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (BMS Code).