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Subject: Maternal and child health > Nutrition
- 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
- Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Global Program Website
This website about PATH’s Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition global program provides an overview of the program and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.
Publication date: 2013
Region: Global
Part of series: PATH's program websites
- Meeting the Global Need for Nutrients: PATH Uses Innovative Approaches and Strong Partnerships to Combat Malnutrition
This fact sheet outlines PATH's work to use innovative approaches and strong partnerships to combat malnutrition in developing countries. Topics include ensuring optimal nutrition for young children, using technologies to improve nutrition, and linking nutrition with other sectors.
Publication date: December 2011
Region: Global
Part of series: PATH's areas of focus fact sheets
- mHealth, eHealth, Reproductive Health (Outlook, vol. 29, no. 1)
This issue of Outlook explores the promise and current realities of new information technologies in service to reproductive health programming in low-resource settings (including HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment and maternal and child health interventions). The issue examines new approaches and looks to the future for current needs and potential solutions.
Author: Wittet S
Publication date: December 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- NIFTY™ Infant Feeding Cup
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work, in collaboration with our partners, to develop a prototype cup to deliver expressed breast milk or formula to infants unable to breastfeed in low-resource countries.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- PATH in Ethiopia: Working in Partnership for Better Health and Stronger Communities
This brochure outlines PATH's work in Ethiopia to improve health. We work side by side with Ministry of Health officials, nongovernmental organizations, multilateral agencies, and other development-sector partners to bring our extensive experience and expertise to bear on the country’s health challenges. Our alliances with hundreds of community collaborators provide an entry point for reaching families and communities to improve health and promote change from the ground up.
Publication date: December 2011
Region: Africa
- PATH in Kenya: Innovation and Partnership to Improve Health
This brochure outlines PATH's work to help Kenya's health care sector improve services and strengthen community networks while empowering Kenyans to adopt healthier lifestyles. PATH offers novel approaches and technical expertise to address a range of health challenges, and we manage projects that reach millions of Kenyans.
Publication date: November 2011
Region: Africa
- PATH in South Africa: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Maternal and Child Health
This brochure outlines PATH's work to improve health in South Africa by bringing effective interventions to the people who need them most. Our interventions make birth safer, enhance infant and young child health, combat HIV/AIDS, strengthen health systems, and support improved sanitation.
Publication date: October 2011
Region: Africa
- PATH’s Rice Fortification Update
Leading with the Ultra Rice technology, PATH has played a catalytic role in developing markets for fortified rice to reduce micronutrient malnutrition in the developing world. This document provides an update on PATH's rice fortification work around the world.
Publication date: December 2012
Region: Global
- 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.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Rice Fortification: Ready to be Scaled Up by the Global Development Community
PATH's Ultra Rice technology offers an effective, affordable, and sustainable solution within our growing portfolio of interventions to address micronutrient malnutrition. This document describes the global introduction and scale-up efforts for the Ultra Rice technology, highlighting opportunities for implementation partners from both the public and private sectors.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
- Safety Management System for Human Milk Banks
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH's work to ensure the safe pasteurization of human breast milk in homes and resource-limited health care facilities. Our work is based on a platform called FoneAstra.
Publication date: June 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Selected Abstracts on HIV and Infant Feeding From the XVIII International AIDS Conference
This report is a compilation of abstracts on HIV and infant feeding presented at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria. The collection is organized by theme.
Publication date: September 2010
Region: Global
- Strengthening Human Milk Banking
PATH is working to promote human milk banking to improve nutrition for infants who are especially vulnerable, such as those in resource-limited settings who are pre-term, low birthweight, severely malnourished, born to HIV-positive mothers, or orphaned. These briefs provide an overview of why human milk banking is important and how it can be integrated within breastfeeding strategies.
Publication date: July 2011
Region: Africa
- Technology Solutions Global Program Website
This website about PATH’s Technology Solutions global program provides an overview of the program and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.
Publication date: 2013
Region: Global
Part of series: PATH's program websites
- Technology Solutions to Improve Global Health: PATH Advances Appropriate, Affordable, and Lifesaving Technologies Tailored to Developing Countries
This fact sheet provides an overview of PATH's work to adapt, design, develop, and advance health technologies to improve global health.
Publication date: December 2011
Region: Global
Part of series: PATH's areas of focus fact sheets
- Ultra Rice Research Summary Table
The Ultra Rice technology has been intensively studied to ensure it is efficacious, shelf stable, and acceptable to consumers. This table outlines the 30 studies conducted to date that form the growing evidence base for the Ultra Rice fortification technology.
Publication date: December 2012
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.
Author: Greiner T
Publication date: September 2007
Region: Global
- Ultra Rice® Technology
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes the Ultra Rice project at PATH.
Publication date: June 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates

