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Alive & Thrive welcomes new grant to focus on institutionalizing knowledge while continuing to provide technical assistance for MIYCAN
Alive & Thrive will undertake a comprehensive effort to institutionalize its extensive knowledge and lessons learned on maternal, infant, young child and adolescent nutrition (MIYCAN) thanks to a new grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, complementing its ongoing work at the country level. Read more.
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Integrating maternal nutrition in antenatal care platforms is feasible and improves practices
Integrating maternal nutrition in antenatal care (ANC) platforms is feasible — and improves nutrition practices, according to the results of Alive & Thrive’s implementation research in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and India. Alive & Thrive presented the results of the research during a webinar in July with support from IFPRI, which conducted the studies in each country. Read more.
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Stakeholders from Southeast Asia and West and Central Africa discuss implementation of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
Seeking to support efforts in West and Central Africa to accelerate implementation of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, Alive & Thrive’s East Asia Pacific regional office shared lessons learned from the Centers of Excellence for Breastfeeding (COE) approach during a webinar in August. Read more.
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Cost of Not Breastfeeding tool updated
The Cost of Not Breastfeeding Tool has been updated with the latest available data and includes a new user-friendly dashboard, in collaboration with Nutrition International. The tool now covers more than 160 countries and, in addition to mortality rates and healthcare costs, offers new calculations for the impact of not breastfeeding on childhood obesity, IQ losses, and education. Read more.
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Nutrition leaders complete blended learning program for social and behavior change
A second cohort of West and Central African nutrition leaders from Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mali has completed the blended learning program developed by UNICEF and Alive & Thrive, which builds their capacity to implement programs to improve rates of exclusive breastfeeding using social and behavior change. Read more.
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Government of Burkina Faso adopts decree on harmful, pervasive marketing of breastmilk substitutes
After years of advocacy by multiple partners, the Government of Burkina Faso signed a revised decree in June on implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (BMS Code). Read more.
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Stronger With Breastmilk Only website revamped
Breastmilkonly.com, the web home of the Stronger With Breastmilk Only regional initiative, has been redesigned, in collaboration with UNICEF and WHO. The website supports and mobilizes nutrition leaders across West and Central Africa to implement programs to increase rates of exclusive breastfeeding. Visit the website.
Learn about the Stronger With Breastmilk Only programs here.
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Nigeria nutrition profiles
These six nutrition profiles provide a snapshot of the MIYCAN situation in Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, Kano, Lagos, Sokoto, and Yobe states. The indicators presented in these profiles show that much work is needed to achieve the 2025 World Health Assembly nutrition targets. Read more.
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Strengthening Maternal Nutrition within Antenatal Care
These briefs present Alive & Thrive research results based on implementing a package of maternal nutrition interventions — including counseling on dietary diversity and quantity; IFA and calcium supplementation and counseling; weight gain monitoring and counseling; and counseling on breastfeeding — into government ANC platforms.
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The Global Cost of Not Breastfeeding
This brief by Nutrition International and Alive & Thrive provides key findings from the updated and expanded Cost of Not Breastfeeding tool, including summaries of the costs by region and country case studies for China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Nigeria. Read more.
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Leveraging professional medical associations to strengthen MIYCN policy and programs in India
This brief describes Alive & Thrive's work with associations to promote adoption of strong MIYCN position by the associations, develop evidence-based guidelines on MIYCN, enhance capacity on evidence-based MIYCN-focused clinical practice and increase their engagement to provide continuous support to public health nutrition programs. Read more.
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Madagascar health worker training videos (in French)
Alive & Thrive collaborated with the Government of Madagascar’s National Community Nutrition Program Unit, National Nutrition Office, and the Ministry of Public Health to produce a series of training videos for health workers on maternal nutrition, group counseling, breastfeeding and complementary feeding. Watch the videos (YouTube).
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Explore our research on our Evidence Map. All of Alive & Thrive research is Open Access, as are Our Data.
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New Datasets
Explore the data from our maternal nutrition implementation research in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia, and our adolescent nutrition implementation research in Ethiopia on Dataverse. Click here.
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During World Breastfeeding Week 2022, Alive & Thrive shared stories of individuals who are working every day to support and promote breastfeeding around the world. Read the vignettes here!
We invite you to follow Alive & Thrive and engage on these and other important topics!
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Conferences
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Core Group Practitioner Conference, October 3-5, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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UNC Water and Health Conference, October 24-28, North Carolina, USA;
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Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, October 30-November 3, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Health Systems Research 2022 - Seventh Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, October 31-November 4, Bogota, Colombia
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International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit, December 5-9, Marrakesh, Morocco
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International Union of Nutritional Sciences, December 6-11, Tokyo, Japan 2023
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International Pediatric Association, February 19-24, India
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International Maternal Newborn Health Conference, May 8-1, Cape Town, South Africa
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33rd International Confederation of Midwives Triennial Congress, June 11-14, Bali, Indonesia
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International Council of Nurses Congress, July 1-5, Montreal, Canada
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Women Deliver, July 17-20, Kigali, Rwanda
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International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) Congress, Oct 9-13, Paris, France
Webinars
Evaluating Capacity: Lessons from Assessing the Performance of District Nutrition Coordination Committees in Ghana (USAID)
The problem with the formula milk industry webinar series: Webinar 2: Should health professional associations refuse industry funding? (WHO)
Courses
Investing in Child Nutrition, Alive & Thrive's IYCF e-learning course, has moved to Agora
UNICEF's Agora learning platform now hosts "Investing in Child Nutrition," the e-learning course developed by Alive & Thrive for health professionals. Access the course here (you must register on Agora to enroll in the course).
Submit your webinars and other virtual public events — including the date, time, and a link — here.
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