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This book is intended to provide practical guidance to ACF field workers on how to implement a Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) assessment.

Published in 2010, by ACF

Addressing vitamin A deficiency without genetic engineering.

Published in 2010, by Greenpeace

Today more than ever, nutrition appears to be a testing ground where differences and inequalities between North and South of the world measure against each other, in particular with regards to childhood. In developed countries, if on the one hand obesity and overweight are dramatically increasing among young people, on the other adults has been affecting...

Published in 2010, by Barilla Center

This technical brief discusses the negative effects of stunting and the steps we can take to prevent them. It is the second in a series of technical briefs that address the continuum of care for good infant and young child feeding, from initiation of early and exclusive breastfeeding through complementary feeding in later infancy and the second year of life....

Published in 2010, by Alive & Thrive

This World Health Organization report states that the leading global risks for mortality in the world are high blood pressure (responsible for 13% of deaths globally), tobacco use (9%), high blood glu­cose (6%), physical inactivity (6%), and overweight and obesity (5%). These risks are responsible for raising the risk of chronic diseases such as heart...

Published in 2009, by WHO

This booklet provides a brief description of pioneering Agency-supported work to evaluate vitamin A and iron deficiencies, bone disease, undernutrition and obesity and the special nutritional requirements of pregnant and lactating women and their children.

Published in 2009, by IAEA

The history of man's relationship with food is an extraordinary social and cultural epic. From the discovery of fire that, to quote Levi Strauss “made human beings human”, to the development of national culinary identities that, according to Rozin, represent the nutritional wisdom of the respective cultures, food is the authentic evidence at every...

Published in 2009, by Barilla Center

WFP supports multiple types of activities that aim to mitigate, prevent, and treat HIV. Given the relatively new nature of many of these programmes, one of the most frequently asked questions is “What food ration should we be giving in the context of the HIV programming that we are doing in country X”?

Published in 2008, by WFP

Building emergency relief skills requires not only technical health training but also education in emergency preparedness and response. This guide is designed to serve as a reference for such training.

Published in 2008, by John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health , IFRC

This document sets out principles governing the use of surveillance indicators in implementing interventions to prevent, control, and monitor iodine deficiency disorders (IDD). It presents methods for monitoring iodine status and determining urinary iodine and provides guidelines on the procedures for monitoring salt iodine content, whether at the factory,...

Published in 2007, by WHO, UNICEF, ICCIDD

A Joint Statement by the WHO, the WFP, the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition and the UNICEF on the community-based treatment of severely malnurished children, promoting it's effectiveness in detecting the cases of SAM and treating them with RUTF. Update 2011 The Joint Statement has been updated to reflect the revised MUAC cut-off of 115 mm on pages 2...

Published in 2007, by WHO, WFP, UNSCN, UNICEF

The reports coming out of a three-day meeting in October 2006 that aimed to clarify and refine the existing United Nations guidance and provide updated recommendations regarding HIV and infant feeding. The new evidence and research together with technical and programmatic input is described, which finally led to the ‘HIV and Infant Feeding Technical...

Published in 2007, by WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA

This document provides the full list of updated HIV and infant feeding recommendations, and an explanation of key points. This information is aimed at programme managers and decision makers, and those who will be in charge of revising national guidelines on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, and infant and young child feeding.

Published in 2007, by WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA

A synthesis of existing technical guidance on HIV and AIDS, nutrition, and food security. The synthesis aims to provide decisionmakers and service providers with guidance on how nutrition may be integrated into HIV prevention and AIDS treatment.

Published in 2007, by World Bank

The statement presents the conclusions of a technical consultation and subsequent follow up meeting in 2005, on the prevention and control of iodine deficiency in pregnant and lactating women and in children less than two years of age.

Published in 2007, by WHO, UNICEF

The nutrient requirements for people living with HIV/AIDS differ from those for non-HIV-infected individuals. These recommendations are based on the report of the May 2003 WHO technical consultation on nutrient requirements for people living with HIV/AIDS

Published in 2007, by USAIDS

These guidelines are meant to assist countries in the design and implementation of appropriate food fortification programmes as part of a comprehensive food-based strategy for combating micronutrient deficiencies.

Published in 2006, by WHO, FAO

This special issue of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin reports on a WHO/UNICEF/Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) meeting on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children that took place in Geneva on November 21–23, 2005, and brought together some 50 international experts and representatives from the World Food Programme (WFP), the United...

Published in 2006, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

This handbook is aimed at WFP staff at all levels who are involved with the delivery of food assistance to WFP beneficiaries. It should serve as both a reference and training manual, providing the staff with - better understanding of food an nutrition issues as they relate to WFP - a practical tool to tackle a number of basic nutrition related tasks,...

Published in 2005, by WFP

These tools have been created to help health workers before, during and after a counselling session so that they can better support HIV-positive mothers.

Published in 2005, by Elizabeth Thomas, Ellen G Piwoz, WHO, UNICEF, USAID

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