Journal article
Jan 26 2024
First foods in a packaged world: Results from the COMMIT consortium to protect young child diets in Southeast Asia (Blankenship JL, White JM, et al. Maternal & Child Nutrition. 2023)
Forty-four percent of all foods and 72% of snacks commercially marketed for young children in Southeast Asia contained added sugars, a study by the Consortium for Improving Complementary Foods in Southeast Asia (COMMIT) initiative found.
Brief
Apr 06 2023
Improving Dietary Practices of Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia: Key findings from implementation research
From 2019 to 2021, Alive & Thrive supported the Government of Ethiopia to develop and implement an adolescent nutrition program to improve dietary practices among adolescent girls. This brief summarizes some of the notable highlights from the implementation research endline findings.
Presentation
Jan 12 2023
Adolescent nutrition, maternal nutrition theory of change and media costs posters presented at the SBCC Summit
Three posters on mass media costing, scaling up maternal nutrition, and school-based nutrition highlight results from some of Alive & Thrive's implementation research in Africa and Asia. They were shared at the 2022 SBCC Summit in Marrakech, Morocco, in December.
Oct 27 2022
VIDEO: Building the future of girls: Alive & Thrive interventions to improve adolescent nutrition in Ethiopia
These videos present Alive & Thrive's adolescent nutrition intervention in Ethiopia, which included Amhara, Somali and SNNP regions. The intervention, co-designed with multiple stakeholders, including adolescent girls and their families, sought to improve dietary practices.
Journal article
Jun 16 2022
Determinants of Adolescent Nutrition Status and Practices in Burkina Faso Using a Pooled Secondary Analysis (Godha D, Likhite N, 2022, Cur Dev Nutrition)
This study showed a strong association between high dietary diversity and unhealthy food intake namely added sugar consumption among adolescents in Burkina Faso, an important consideration for policy makers as they design adolescent nutrition programs to reduce malnutrition.
Announcement
May 31 2022
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