Publications
USAID Publications
- 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.
- Report to Congress: Child Survival and Health Programs Fund Progress Report – FY 2007 [PDF, 14MB]
This report describes USAID's strategic approaches, interventions, and achievements in health that were reported during 2007.
- Report to Congress: Health-Related Research and Development Activities at USAID – September 2008 [PDF, 1.2MB]
Health research is integral to USAID’s ability to achieve its health and development objectives worldwide. In 2006, USAID outlined its five-year health research strategy. With this report, USAID provides an update on this strategy for using research funds to stimulate the development and introduction of key products through 2010. Significant progress has been made in many areas, influencing policies and programming on the ground in real time.
- 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.
Top ^
Infant and Young Child Nutrition
Top ^
Micronutrient Supplementation
- 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.
- Information Needed for Consensus on Policies and Programs to Improve Iron Nutrition – March 2007
This paper seeks to identify the key gaps in information that must be filled to move toward consensus on policies and programs to improve iron nutrition.
- 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.
- Worldwide Prevalence of Anemia, 1993–2005
This report discusses the prevalence of anemia, a global public health problem affecting both developing and developed countries with major consequences for human health as well as social and economic development.
- Newborn Vitamin A Supplementation: Program Update – July 2008
USAID, along with global partners, has taken the lead
through advocacy and partnership building in identifying
and evaluating feasible delivery mechanisms for newborn
vitamin A supplementation.
- Implementing the New Recommendations on the Clinical Management of Diarrhea – 2006
This manual provides policy makers and program managers with the information they need
to introduce and/or scale up a national decision to introduce the new ORS formulation and zinc
supplementation as part of the clinical management of diarrheal diseases.
Top ^
Food Fortification
- The Food Fortification Formulator
A2Z, the USAID Micronutrient Leadership and Child Blindness Project, offers these tools for the calculation of the fortification of various foods with micronutrients.
- Rice Fortification in Developing Countries: A Critical Review of the Technical and Economic Feasibility – April 2008
A2Z conducted an assessment of rice fortification in China, Costa Rica, the Philippines, and the United States.
- Monitoring and Evaluating Food Fortification Programs – February 2008
In 2006, several major public health agencies attended a meeting aimed to develop consensus among public nutrition specialists on terminology, either mandatory or voluntary, that could be applied to monitoring and evaluation of food fortification programs.
- 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.
Top ^
Management of Malnutrition
Top ^
HIV and Nutrition
Top ^
Food Security
|
