Report

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.

Journal article

May 01 2014

Linear growth increased in young children in an urban slum of Haiti: a randomized controlled trial of a lipid-based nutrient supplement (Iannotti I., 2014. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

The aim of this project was to test the efficacy of a lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) on infants 6 to 11 months in Haiti. The LNS provided 108 kcal and vitamin A, vitamin B-12, iron, and zinc (80 % of the recommended amounts).

 
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