Announcement
Jul 12 2019
Cost of Not Breastfeeding interactive tool
Globally, nearly 600,000 children and nearly 100,000 women die each year due to inadequate breastfeeding. These preventable deaths, combined with cognitive losses, and health system costs of inadequate breastfeeding leads to over $340 billion in economic losses annually.
Announcement
Jun 12 2019
Investing in Child Nutrition e-learning course
Investing in Child Nutrition is a free, publicly available online course designed to provide guidance, skills, and practical information to health workers to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding and com
Report
Feb 08 2016
Formative Research to Support Improved Infant Feeding in Burkina Faso: Findings and Recommendations for Action
This report discusses the findings and recommendations from a study conducted to identify existing practices, barriers, and facilitating factors related to optimal infant and young child feeding in Burkina Faso.
Report
Nov 07 2014
Identifying Micronutrient Gaps in the Diets of Breastfed 6-11-month-old Infants
Presents the methodology and results of using linear programming to determine whether micronutrient needs could be met using only unfortified local foods in three countries, explores options for meeting these needs that includes fortified products, and compares the costs of the various scenarios.
Report
Feb 01 2014
Small grant program: Findings of 12 innovation grants to improve infant and young child feeding
The goal of the Alive & Thrive (A&T) Grants Program (2009 to 2014) was to identify new solutions for scaling up effective and sustainable interventions to improve infant and young child feeding by linking research to program delivery.