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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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Oct 27 2014

Small grants program: Assessing the cost and effectiveness of training and supervision of frontline workers on early breastfeeding practices in Bangladesh

The goal of this project was to determine if traditional birth attendant (TBA) and community volunteer (CV) training could improve early breastfeeding (BF) practices, and if so, whether the impact was substantially greater if the relatively expensive component of post-training supervision was inc

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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.

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Sep 01 2010

Formative research on IYCF practices, beliefs, and influences in Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Presents findings from the formative research conducted by Alive & Thrive in 2010 that informed program design in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

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Sep 01 2010

Formative research on IYCF practices, beliefs, and influences in SNNP Region, Ethiopia

Presents findings from the formative research conducted by Alive & Thrive in 2009 that informed program design in the SNNP Region of Ethiopia.

 
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