In large parts of Amhara region of Ethiopia, food availability and production are among the highest in the country. Yet, so are rates of chronic malnutrition (DHS, 2011). Alive & Thrive, in collaboration with the Government of Ethiopia, set out to address these discrepancies.

Alive & Thrive (A&T) Viet Nam, developed and incorporated elements of social franchising into government health services to provide high-quality nutrition counseling services to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices.

The goal of this paper was to document and describe sales and marketing of breast-milk substitutes (BMS) and their influence on World Health Organization-recommended breastfeeding behaviors, focusing on low- and middle-income countries.

Summarizes how each program component (advocacy, interpersonal communication, mass communication, and strategic use of data) was implemented in Bangladesh and the results.

This brief summarizes A&T's maternal nutrition program Bangladesh. In this second phase work of work, A&T is testing