Presentation
Mar 12 2024
Alive & Thrive Nigeria Infant and Young Child Feeding Evaluations in Lagos and Kaduna States
This slide deck was part of a presentation given by RTI International and Alive & Thrive during a post-graduate course lecture at Johns Hopkins University on January 25, 2024.
Journal article
Jan 26 2024
Overpromoted and underregulated: National binding legal measures related to commercially produced complementary foods in seven Southeast Asian countries are not fully aligned with available guidance (Blankenship J, et al. Maternal & Child Nutrition. 2023)
Journal article
Nov 28 2023
Maternity protection policies and the enabling environment for breastfeeding in the Philippines: a qualitative study (Maramag CC, Zambrano P, et al. International Breastfeeding Journal. 2023)
The Philippines has enacted maternity protection policies, such as the 105-Day Expanded Maternity Leave Law and the Expanded Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009, to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding.
Guide/Manual
Aug 16 2023
Alive & Thrive Nigeria MIYCN Practical Skills Training Manual
This manual can be used as part of an in-service orientation/training for newly employed or deployed health professionals working in MIYCN. It can also be used to train existing primary healthcare (PHC) workers on essential MIYCN services that can be integrated into PHC services.
Brief
Jul 27 2023
Cost of Not Breastfeeding Advocacy Brief Series (2022)
Not breastfeeding has significant health and economic impacts. The Cost of Not Breastfeeding Tool is an evidence-based modeling tool that uses open-access data to estimate the health and economic costs of not protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding.
Brief
Jul 11 2023
Strengthening Quality of Breastfeeding Counselling at Private Healthcare Facilities in Urban Nigeria: Lessons from Lagos State
From 2019 to 2020, Alive & Thrive (A&T) focused on engaging and strengthening the capacity of 10 private health facilities in Lagos State to provide high-quality breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) support services.
