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The Maternal, Infant, Young Child & Adolescent Nutrition Update newsletter

Click below to read past editions of the MIYCAN Update is Alive & Thrive's quarterly global newsletter.

December 2022

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Apr 21 2020

Profils nutritionnels de six régions du Burkina Faso

Ces profils nutritionnels présentent des données MIYCN pour six régions du Burkina Faso, y compris des données sur les indicateurs de santé et de nutrition, les causes de la sous nutrition, les plateformes de promotion de la nutrition et les soins de santé prénatals et infantiles, et les objectifs n

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Apr 21 2020

burkina nutrition profiles

Burkina Faso Nutrition Profiles for Six Regions

These nutrition profiles present MIYCN data for six regions of Burkina Faso, including data on health and nutrition indicators, causes of undernutrition, nutrition promotion platforms and antenatal and child health care, and global nutrition targets.

Journal article

Feb 25 2020

The cost of not breastfeeding: global results from a new tool (Walters, D., 2019. Health Policy and Planning)

A billion dollars and two thousand lives, every day. This impactful study, which is the foundation for Alive and Thrive’s online tool, examines the human and economic costs of not breastfeeding.

Journal article

Nov 15 2019

Predictors of exclusive breastfeeding across three time points in Bangladesh (Blackstone SR., 2018. International Health)

This study explored predictors of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) in Bangladesh using data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey from 2007, 2011, and 2014, focusing on reasons why rates of EBF changed over those time periods.

Journal article

Nov 15 2019

Translating the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes into national measures in nine countries (Michaud-Letourneau, I., 2018. Maternal & Child Nutrition)

This paper investigates how the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) was translated from an international policy framework to protect breastfeeding against inappropriate marketing practices into national level legislation, in the context of the advocacy efforts un

 
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