Publications

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  USAID Publications
• Infant and Young Children
• Micronutrient Supplementation
• Food Fortification
• Management of Malnutrition
• HIV and Nutrition
• Food Security

USAID Publications

• Report to Congress: Health-Related Research and Development Activities at USAID - October 2010 [PDF 1.4MB]
  With this report, USAID provides its final update on the Agency’s 2006–2010 health research strategy for using research funds to stimulate the development and introduction of key products. Significant progress has been made in many areas, influencing policies and programming on the ground in real time. Learn more.
  • 2009 Report to Congress [PDF, 447KB]
    
    
• Report to Congress – Striving for a Healthy Future: Global Health and Child Survival Progress Report FY 2009 [PDF, 5MB]
  This report describes USAID's strategic approaches, interventions, and achievements in health that were reported during 2009.
  • Executive Summary [PDF, 666KB]
    
    
• USAID Global Health: Improving Global Health Improves the World
  For 50 years, USAID has worked to improve health globally and supported interventions in poor countries around the world to help prevent illness, provide treatment, improve family planning, and strengthen health systems. Read more on how USAID is helping people live longer, healthier, more productive lives.
  
  
• Investing in the Future: A United Call to Action on Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies – May 2009 [PDF, 2.1MB]
  Launched in May 2009 at the USAID-sponsored Micronutrient Forum in Beijing, China, this report provides a comprehensive snapshot of the global impact of vitamin and mineral deficiencies; describes the health and economic costs of these deficiencies; details progress made and lessons learned in vitamin and mineral programming; and makes a convincing case for increasing funding for cost-effective solutions.
  
  
• Report to Congress: Working Toward the Goal of Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality: USAID Programming and Response to FY08 Appropriations
  This report is produced by USAID and provides details on maternal and child programs in 30 priority countries, as well as FY08 funding levels.
  
  
• Micronutrient Update – January 2007 [PDF, 945KB]
  This Micronutrient Update presents information on women and children from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted between 2000 and 2005.
  
  
• Infant and Young Child Feeding Update – September 2006 [PDF, 3MB]
  This update provides data on key indicators related to optimal feeding practices of children under five. The Update reports on DHS survey data collected between 1998 and 2004 from 43 countries in 5 regions around the world: sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa/West Asia/Europe, Central Asia, South/Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
  
  
• Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC)
  The USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) is the Agency's primary online resource for development experience documents. Browse through nutrition-related documents available online.
  
  
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition

• Directions in Global Health: Improving Nutrition for Infants and Young Children – May 2008 [PDF, 82KB]
  This two-page spread on the Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project (IYCN) in PATH’s May 2008 edition of Directions in Global Health describes the project’s latest work with early interventions to strengthen outcomes for mothers and children.
  
  
• Review of Incorporation of Essential Nutrition Actions in Public Health Programs in Ethiopia – January 2008
  The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) package is an approach to expand the coverage of seven affordable and evidence-based actions to improve the nutritional status of women and children, especially those under two years of age.
  
  
• Challenging Assumptions: Breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS – March 2008
  The goal of improving infant feeding practices among HIV-positive mothers is to improve infant survival while minimizing the risk of HIV transmission.

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Micronutrient Supplementation

• Scaling Up Micronutrient Programs: What Works and What Needs More Work? The 2008 Innocenti Process [PDF, 734KB]
  The importance of micronutrient interventions to reduce mortality and morbidity in developing countries has been highlighted in recent high profile publications, and several ongoing global initiatives seek to accelerate Millennium Development Goals achievement through micronutrient and other nutrition interventions.
  
  
• Investing in Nutrition [PDF, 257KB]
  Malnutrition remains the world’s most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child mortality. This brochure covers USAID's efforts to achieve sustainable reductions in global hunger and malnutrition.
  
  
• Report on the First Meeting of the Micronutrient Forum, Istanbul – December 2007
  The Micronutrient Forum aims to serve as a stimulus for policy-relevant science and as the internationally recognized catalyst for moving the global community toward consensus around evidence-based policies and programs that reduce micronutrient deficiencies around the globe.
  
  
• Gap Analysis: Defining the Issues for Vitamin A – January 2007
  Vitamin A deficiency remains a widespread public health problem among women and children in the developing world and has adverse health consequences.
  
  
• Vitamin A Deficiency: Counting the Cost in Women’s Lives – January 2007
  This brief examines how vitamin A deficiency may influence maternal mortality in various regions of the world.
  
  
• Vitamin A Supplementation: A Decade of Progress – April 2007
  This report is a review of global advocacy efforts dating back to 1997, when experts met to discuss ways to rapidly increase the adoption by countries of vitamin A supplementation as a critical child survival intervention.
  
  
• Maternal Anemia: A Preventable Killer – August 2006
  This brief details the causes and consequences of iron deficiency, IDA, and anemia, and emphasizes the importance of implementing a package of interventions to address multiple causes of anemia.
  
  
• Girl Guides Anemia Prevention Badge Project – January 2007
  FANTA and the Regional Center for Quality of Health Care designed the Girl Guides Anemia Prevention Badge Project, a program to reach adolescent girls in East and Southern Africa with information and activities on anemia prevention and control.
  

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Food Fortification

• Guidelines on Food Fortification with Micronutrients – 2006
  These Guidelines provide information relating to the benefits, limitations, design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, cost–benefit, and regulation of food fortification in order to assist developing countries in the design and implementation of appropriate food fortification programs.
  
  
• Sustainable Elimination of Iodine Deficiency – May 2008
  This report reviews global efforts and progress to eliminate iodine deficiency (IDD) during the past two decades, captures the lessons learned and best practices in the elimination of IDD in various countries, and proposes an agenda against IDD as a vital step toward preventing adverse effects on international development and human potential.

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Management of Malnutrition

• International Workshop on the Integration of Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition – April 2008
  The Workshop Report for the April 2008 International Workshop on the Integration of Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) provides an overview of the overarching issues, obstacles, and successes encountered in the integration of CMAM into national health systems.
  
  
• Review of Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) in the Post-emergency Context: Synthesis of Lessons on Integration of CMAM into National Health Systems – April 2008
  The review discusses recommendations for successful and sustainable integration of CMAM based on a comprehensive review of the challenges, successes and lessons learned from the experience in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Niger.

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HIV and Nutrition

• A Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation of Nutrition Assessment, Education and Counseling of People Living With HIV – June 2008
  This guide provides guidance and tools to support programs in monitoring and evaluating nutrition interventions for people living with HIV.
  
  
• Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV – September 2007
  This guide was developed to improve the design and implementation of food security programs that respond to HIV-related challenges as well as of HIV programs that utilize food and food-related activities to achieve HIV-related outcomes.

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Food Security

• Sudan Food Assistance Transition Study – December 2007
  The report provides an analysis of the key issues related to food insecurity and the high rates of malnutrition in Southern Sudan and the Three Areas (Abyei, the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile).
  
  
• Trigger Indicators and Early Warning and Response Systems in Multi-Year Title II Assistance Programs – November 2007
  This paper reviews experiences with operationalizing trigger indicators and early warning and response systems to date and provides suggestions on how cooperating sponsors can operationalize the Office of Food for Peace guidance on trigger indicators.
  
  
• Emergencies in Urban Settings: A Technical Review of Food-Based Program Options – August 2008
  The paper examines 11 common food-based programs to highlight advantages, disadvantages, targeting, and implementation modalities in the urban context.
  
  
• Evaluating Title II Development-oriented Multi-Year Assistance Projects – March 2006
  The focus of this Technical Note is to lay out the various evaluation design options open to managers of Title II development-oriented multi-year assistance projects.