Extra Food Means Nothing to Stunted Kids With Bad Water: Health

April 2, 2014

Extra Food Means Nothing to Stunted Kids With Bad Water:  Health | Source: by Adi Narayan, Bloomberg, June 2013. Excerpts – Aameena Mohammed gives her 20-month-old daughter Daslim Banu plenty to eat. The girl’s mother supplements breast milk with eggs, soup and rice to help her grow. The extra food doesn’t help. Daslim still weighs […]

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Francis Ngure – The WASH and Nutrition Nexus Current Operational Approaches, Lessons Learned and Practical Considerations for Future Programming

April 2, 2014

This presentation was made at a meeting at USAID on April 1, 2014. The WASH and Nutrition Nexus Current Operational Approaches, Lessons Learned and Practical Considerations for Future Programming, by Francis M. Ngure, Water and Sanitation Program. Presentation, pdf Excerpts from the presentation – There is enough evidence to support integration of  WASH and nutrition […]

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WASH/Nutrition Literature Update – March 2014

April 2, 2014

WASH/Nutrition Literature Update – March 2014 The March 2014 literature update includes details on an upcoming USAID-sponsored WASH nutrition presentation on April 1, 2014, and the March 2014 issue of USAID’s Global Waters magazine with descriptions of USAID WASH and nutrition efforts in Liberia and other countries. Other resources include a 2014 WHO report on […]

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Interventions to Address Maternal and Childhood Undernutrition: Current Evidence

March 12, 2014

Interventions to Address Maternal and Childhood Undernutrition: Current Evidence Order info Bhutta Z.A. · Das J.K. Black RE, Singhal A, Uauy R (eds): International Nutrition: Achieving Millennium Goals and Beyond. Nestlé Nutr Inst Workshop Ser. Nestec Ltd. Vevey/S. Karger AG Basel, © 2014, vol 78, pp 59-69 The global burden of undernutrition remains high with […]

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Can an Integrated Approach Reduce Child Vulnerability to Anaemia?

March 12, 2014

Can an Integrated Approach Reduce Child Vulnerability to Anaemia? Evidence from Three African Countries. PLoS One, March 2014. Full text Authors: Kendra Siekmans, et al. Addressing the complex, multi-factorial causes of childhood anaemia is best done through integrated packages of interventions. We hypothesized that due to reduced child vulnerability, a “buffering” of risk associated with […]

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Systematic review and meta-analysis: association between WASH and maternal mortality

March 12, 2014

Systematic review and meta-analysis: association between water and sanitation environment and maternal mortality. Trop Med Intl Health, Feb 2014. Full text, pdf Authors: Lenka Benova, Oliver Cumming and Oona M. R. Campbell Objective – To assess whether the lack of water or the lack of sanitation facilities in either the home or in health facilities is […]

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Poster on Food Hygiene Intervention: An Exploratory Trial In Nepal

February 14, 2014

POSTER: Visual representation of Om Prasad Gautam’s Food Hygiene Intervention: An Exploratory Trial In Nepal Link to poster, pdf  | Link to food hygiene blog This poster is a visual representation of SHARE PhD student Om Prasad Gautam’s ‘Food hygiene intervention to improve food hygiene behaviours, reduce food contamination and diarrhoeal diseases burden in Nepal’. Om […]

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Seasonal Effects of Water Quality: The Hidden Costs of the Green Revolution to Infant and Child Health in India

February 12, 2014

Seasonal Effects of Water Quality: The Hidden Costs of the Green Revolution to Infant and Child Health in India. Journal of Development Economics, Nov 2013. E  Brainerd. (Link) This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using water quality data combined with data on child health outcomes from […]

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Nepal – Food Hygiene: Multi-Sector Policy Analysis and Dissemination of Findings

February 12, 2014

Food Hygiene: Multi-Sector Policy Analysis and Dissemination of Findings at Country Level. Om Prasad Gautam, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. (Link) | (Blog home page) After the completion of the food hygiene intervention trial in Nepal, four major activities were performed between September and December 2013. This blog gives an update on these activities, […]

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WASH, environmental enteropathy, nutrition, and early child development: making the links

February 5, 2014

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), environmental enteropathy, nutrition, and early child development: making the links. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Jan 2014. Full text Download other early child development articles from this issue Authors: Francis M. Ngure, et al. There is scarce research and programmatic evidence on the effect of poor water, […]

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