Mother, Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Malnutrition

Nutrition and Malnutrition News

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

Malnutrition claims 7 kids in Satna district, India
India's children bearing brunt of costly food

51% of Indian children stunted by undernutrition: Child undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies in India among highest in the world

A suffering Bharat vs shining India

Most of world's stunted children live in India, says Lancet

Hunger has an even bigger impact on children's health than was thought

New Lancet Series Urges Action on Maternal and Child Undernutrition

Malnutrition rampant, may trigger crisis

Healthy Nutrition

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

Good maternal nutrition during pregnancy is linked to good weight of the newborn. Good weight at birth means increased chances for a healthy and bright growth.
Good maternal nutrition during breastfeeding is linked to a healthy and bright growth of the baby.

Good nutrition from birth to three years is the most important foundation for your baby to grow healthy and bright.

Beyond the age of two-three, the effects of chronic malnutrition in your baby will be irreversible.

Malnutrition

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

14% of children under three years in Maharashtra are acutely malnourished (wasted).

This means that they have a 5-20 times higher risk of dying from common diseases like diarrhea or pneumonia than normally nourished children.

Beyond the age of two-three, the effects of chronic malnutrition in your baby will be irreversible.

This means that to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty and malnutrition, children at risk must be reached during their first two years of life.

Nutrition in the Context of HIV/AIDS

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

The HIV pandemic and the risk of mother to child transmission of HIV through breastfeeding pose unique challenges to promotion of breastfeeding.
It is important to promote HIV Individual Counseling and Testing among all pregnant and lactating women.

The absolute risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding for more than one year, globally between 10% and 20%, needs to be balanced against increased risk of mortality and morbidity when infants are not breastfed.

Mixed feeding (breastfeeding and breast milk replacement feeding) in the first six months increases risks of HIV transmission.

Protection, Promotion and Support

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

This section looks at healthy nutrition from a programmatic point of view.
It includes links with high impact nutrition interventions and an introduction on the ENA approach to support planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of high-impact nutrition interventions.

It is intended mainly for practitioners and program managers.

Early Detection and Referral of Children with Malnutrition

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

This section looks at feasible ways to timely detect and refer children with malnutrition from primary health care units and communities.
It is intended mainly for practitioners and program managers to increase coverage through active case finding and referral of children with malnutrition at all contact points before the onset of life threatening complications.

Management of Malnutrition in Children under five years

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

For severely malnourished, the in-patient outline is based on WHO standards and on updates from Professor Michael Golden.
The out-patient outline is based mainly on the Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) Field Manual by the CTC Research and Development programme (collaboration between Valid International and Concern Worldwide).

For moderately malnourished, the outline is based on UNICEF standards in emergency-settings and on the CTC Field Manual.

More than half of all deaths in children less than three years have malnutrition as the underlying cause.

These children would have recovered from common child diseases if they had not been malnourished, but because they are malnourished they die.

Management of severe acute malnutrition focuses on reducing mortality while management of moderate acute malnutrition focuses on preventing mortality by reducing further deterioration of nutritional status.

The section is intended mainly for practitioners / program managers.

Information Management Systems

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

The Information Management System should inform the decision-making process whereby nutrition intervention priorities are based on objective criteria and sound judgments on available resources, human, material and financial.
Monitoring and Evaluation activities need to provide timely, relevant, accessible, high-quality information to improve program functioning by shifting the focus from inputs to results and creating accountability for performance.

Important resources and energy are devoted to surveys and studies with little feed-back given to the people that provided information in the first place.

The contact between interviewers and interviewed should be acknowledged as golden opportunity to communicate key messages on nutrition and health.

Nutrition and Malnutrition and India

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

The UN estimates that 2.1 million Indian children die before reaching the age of 5 every year, four every minute, mostly from preventable illnesses such as diarrhoea, typhoid, malaria, measles and pneumonia.
Every day, 1,000 Indian children die because of diarrhoea alone.

Overview of Malnutrition Situation in India

Overview of Malnutrition Situation in Maharashtra

The Bleakest Nutrition Figures at a Glance

India's Primary Policy Response: the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Program

Program Outline

Challenges and Way Forward

Indian National Guidelines

Complementary Feeding Guidelines

IFA supplementation

Indian Pediatrics and Child Survival

Food and Nutrition Board

Recommendations

Child Malnourishment in India

Nutrition and Malnutrition Resources specifically for India

Nutrition and Malnutrition Resources

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:40:00 GMT

Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition
WHO Infant and Young Child Feeding and Nutrition

Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC)

Protocol for the Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition

Guidelines for the Management of Severely Malnourished

Initiation of Breastfeeding by Breast Crawl

Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition

The WHO Child Growth Standards

Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding

Management of Severe Malnutrition: A Manual for Physicians and Other Senior Health Workers

Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development

Micronutrient Sprinkles to Control Childhood Anaemia

Severe malnutrition: report of a consultation to review current literature

Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of severely malnourished children

Training course on the management of severe malnutrition

Facts for Life

Cartograms Images of the social and economic world

Diarrhoea Guides

Marathi Cookbook, Iron and Vitamin C Rich Recipes, Gharchya Ghari Anaemia Tala

Management of Critically Sick Child

National Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding

Policy on Control of Nutritional Anaemia

Prevention and Control of Nutritional Anaemia: A South Asia Priority

Preventing and Controlling Iron Deficiency Anaemia Through Primary Health Care

Measles Control: An Urban Challenge, National Immunization Programme, Government of India

Sahyogini, Animator to guide Self Help Groups

Vitamin A: Frequently Asked Questions, English and Marathi

Census India 2001, Rural and Urban distribution of population

India and states/Union territories

The Free And Compulsory Education Bill, 2004, India

Health and Healing

Where There Is No Doctor

HIV Health and Your Community

Helping Children Who Are Deaf