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Nov 05 2014

Rapid assessment of infant and young child feeding in communities in Tigray and SNNP regions of Ethiopia

Complements earlier formative research through an assessment of communication channels, available resources, and training needs of health extension workers and volunteers.

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Nov 05 2014

Findings of Alive & Thrive baseline survey in Ethiopia

Presents findings from the baseline survey conducted in Tigray and SNNP regions in 2010 as part of the impact evaluation of A&T interventions.

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Oct 28 2014

Small grants program: Improving breastfeeding practices through cell phone counseling in India

The goal of this project was to examine the effect on breastfeeding (BF) rates of providing mothers with cell phone-based breastfeeding (BF) counseling in addition to maternity hospital retraining in the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI).

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Oct 28 2014

Adding micronutrient powders to an integrated food security and nutrition project to further reduce malnutrition in Nepal

The goal of this project is to examine the impact on anemia prevalence among young children of providing an enhanced homestead food production (EHFP) program with or without micronutrient powders (MNP).

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Oct 28 2014

mHealth and Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative for breastfeeding

Cell phone-based breastfeeding counseling, coupled with retraining of hospital staff in the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative, increased rates of early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding in India.

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Oct 27 2014

Small grants program: Breastfeeding clubs and mHealth for breastfeeding support - Honduras

This project consisted of a randomized trial was designed to examine the effect of breastfeeding (BF) support provided through BF clubs and cell phones on BF rates among 500 adolescent mothers in Honduras.

 
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