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- Anemia Detection in Health Services: Guidelines for Program Managers
Anemia detection is often used as a screening test for iron deficiency. These guidelines are intended to help program managers establish anemia detection services or enhance existing services.
Publication date: 1996
Region: Global
- Anemia Detection Methods in Low-Resource Settings: A Manual for Health Workers
Publication date: 1997
Region: Global
- Assessing Ultra Rice
This document briefly examines some of the research that has been conducted on Ultra Rice. From positive consumer acceptance and nutrient retention studies to impressive efficacy trials on improving vitamin A and iron levels, Ultra Rice has been proven to be an effective, low-cost rice fortification technology.
Publication date: November 2007
Region: Global
- Association Between Maternal, Birth, and Newborn Characteristics and Neonatal Mortality in Five Asian Countries
Questions about new interventions believed to improve neonatal survival have been added to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in five Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, and the Philippines. This document explores associations between these interventions and neonatal mortality and discusses implications for future research.
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- The Case for Preventing Malnutrition Through Improved Infant Feeding and Management of Childhood Illness
This poster and accompanying handout, presented by the IYCN Project at the 10th Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Congress on Diarrhoea & Malnutrition in August 2009, make a case for investing in prevention of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) rather than in the universal introduction of SAM treatment.
Publication date: September 2009
Region: Global
- Challenging Assumptions: Breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS
This two-page policy brief discusses the benefits of breastfeeding in light of the risk of perinatal HIV transmission. Recommendations include increasing adoption of recent World Health Oragnization guidelines on infant feeding and HIV and extending support to cover the first two years of life.
Publication date: March 2008
Region: Global
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- Directions in Global Health (Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2004)
The January 2004 issue of PATH's programmatic newsletter focuses on five projects: preventing HIV and AIDS in the Philippines, evaluating a malaria vaccine candidate, increasing youth access to services through pharmacies, advancing the Ultra Rice technology, and using theater to encourage social change.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 5, Issue 1, May 2008)
This issue of Directions in Global Health profiles our effort to expand access to safe water, particularly in India; a project to improve nutrition for infants and young children; our thermostable vaccine work; surveillance activities for Japanese encephalitis; and our work under the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 6, Issue 1, May 2009)
This special issue of Directions in Global Health highlights PATH’s work to advance technologies to improve global health. Featured technologies include low-cost tests to screen for cervical cancer, a new vaccine to protect against meningitis in Africa, products to prevent diarrheal disease, and Ultra Rice food fortification technology. The issue also includes a summary of PATH’s approach to developing and introducing innovative health technologies.
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- Ears to the Ground: An Exploration of African Culture and Health
This book contains descriptions of selected CHAPS projects from Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. CHAPS aimed to improve health, well being, and gender relations of communities by identifying, revising, and promoting cultural practices and beliefs through a small grants program. The stories contained in this book are more than project descriptions; they provide an opportunity to discuss and reflect on culture and health.
Publication date: December 2007
Region: Africa
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- Fortified Rice for the Midday Meal: A Case Study of Ultra Rice in a Naandi Kitchen in Andhra Pradesh
This case study highlights PATH's work with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and the Naandi Foundation to introduce iron-fortified Ultra Rice into the Government of India's midday meal program in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The pilot project provides iron-fortified lunches each day to 61,000 school-aged children.
Publication date: June 2009
Region: Global
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- Helping Babies Grow up Healthy and Strong (Lesotho)
This two-page success story profiles a volunteer health worker who learned about the benefits of good breastfeeding practices during an Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project training workshop in rural Lesotho. The story highlights the project’s work to improve nutrition for infants and young children in developing countries by training community volunteers who counsel mothers on optimal nutrition practices.
Publication date: November 2008
Region: Global
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- Improving Infant Feeding to Protect Babies From HIV (Zambia)
This success story profiles Patricia Nawa, an HIV-positive mother from Zambia, who used good infant feeding practices to help protect her baby from HIV.
Publication date: September 2009
Region: Global
- Improving Nutrition for Mothers and Children
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project.
Publication date: July 2009
Region: Global
- Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project Website
The Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project website offers helpful nutrition information and resources for global health professionals. It provides training tools, publications, and other resources on maternal nutrition, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, infant feeding within the context of HIV, and infant feeding during and after illness. The website also features the latest news and highlights from the IYCN Project.
- Introduction of Fortified Rice Using the Ultra Rice® Technology: Frequently Asked Technical Questions
This document provides important details on technical aspects of the Ultra Rice® technology.
Publication date: October 2008
Region: Global
- IYCN Update
The IYCN Update is a periodic email newsletter from USAID’s Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project offering updates on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition for global health professionals. Distributed four times per year, each issue includes research highlights, new resources, and IYCN Project news.
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- Kenya Infant Feeding Assessment: Eastern and Western Provinces
This report describes a 2008 study conducted in Kenya's Eastern and Western Provinces. The study assessed the experiences of HIV-infected mothers and their infants during the time they were stopping breastfeeding.
Publication date: September 2009
Region: Africa
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- Meeting the Global Need for Nutrients
This fact sheet provides an overview of PATH's work to improve nutrition around the world. This work includes developing tools to detect micronutrient deficiencies, expanding the use of micronutrient-fortified rice, and improving nutrition for infants and young children. The document highlights project successes in Uganda, Lesotho, and Colombia.
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- PATH in India
This brochure describes PATH's country program in India.
Publication date: April 2009
Region: Asia
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- Retinol Binding Protein Enzyme Immunoassay (RBP-EIA)
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work to develop a rapid, low-cost test to detect vitamin A deficiency.
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- Ultra Rice
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the Ultra Rice project at PATH.
- Ultra Rice Research Summary Table
Ultra Rice has been intensively studied to ensure it is efficacious, shelf stable, and acceptable to consumers. This table outlines the 28 studies conducted to date that form the growing evidence base for Ultra Rice.
Publication date: July 2009
Region: Global
- Ultra Rice Technology – Expanding Markets for Fortified Rice: An Invisible Bounty as Food for Life
This overview of PATH’s Ultra Rice project summarizes Ultra Rice as a cost-effective and culturally appropriate food-fortification technology specially designed to meet the needs of low-resource, rice-consuming populations.
Publication date: May 2009
Region: Global
- Ultra Rice: Frequently Asked Questions
This FAQ provides greater detail on a number of issues related to the Ultra Rice technology, including health issues, manufacturing processes, and ingredient and micronutrient composition of Ultra Rice grains. It also provides some insight into consumer questions and PATH's advocacy and commercialization activities.
- Ultra Rice® Technology: Value Proposition
The Ultra Rice technology offers an efficacious, affordable, and sustainable solution within the growing portfolio of interventions to address micronutrient deficiencies. This document highlights the key elements of the value proposition for this innovative health technology developed by PATH.
Publication date: June 2009
Region: Global
- Update: Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Rwanda
The purpose of this document is to provide an update on the "Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Rwanda" study conducted by UNICEF and partners in Rwanda in 2005. The document discusses the results of the Rwanda study in light of more recent research and program findings and includes the new WHO guidelines on HIV and infant feeding, which were published in October 2006. The study was published in French as "Evaluation des pratiques d'alimentation des nourrissons et des jeunes enfants dans le contexte du VIH/SIDA au Rwanda."