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  • Nutrition agents increase demand for CMAM services in Borno

    September 25, 2018 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri, Borno State

    Being in a conflict zone, primary healthcare in the state of Borno in Nigeria has suffered in recent years. In response to the crisis, Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) centers provide Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to treat children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The centers also work in tandem with Community Nutrition Mobilizers (CNMs) to follow up with mothers to ensure that the children are taking the medicine, to educate them on malnutrition in children, and to offer other primary care provisions like immunizations.

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  • Banking on 'liquid gold': How breast milk banks are saving infant lives

    September 21, 2018 |

    Citizen Matters |

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    Response Location: India

    When babies are born in less that ideal scenarios, such as prematurely, both mother and baby are often impacted by the stress of the situation, impacting the amount of milk a mother can produce. Breast milk banks aim to address this, however, by providing human breast milk donated by volunteers to mothers and babies in need.

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  • Peanuts, Millet, Beans: simple foods helping to stem Kano's malnutrition crisis

    July 02, 2018 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    When Kano State began measuring the rates of adolescent malnutrition, they found that the number of children that qualified as some degree of malnourished was staggering. To mitigate this statistic from increasing, a television show and local NGO joined forces to implement an intervention that aims to teach families about viable food options and preemptively screen for diseases.

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  • Feeding the World

    June 05, 2018 |

    East Side Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, North Kingstown, Rhode Island

    An American woman founded a company that produces a life saving food ration for malnourished children. She employs 70 workers, mostly refugees, and her products nourish 2 million children yearly.

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  • Backed By A Band Of Philanthropists, Nonprofit Makes Dramatic Progress In Reducing Childhood Deaths

    March 12, 2018 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: Mali, Bamako

    By the time sick kids reach a clinic, it can be too late. Through home visits, community health workers in Mali are spotting early signs of malaria, pneumonia, diarrheal disease, and malnutrition and providing treatment to sick kids right away. The approach shortens the time between the first signs of illness and treatment, saving lives in one of the countries with the highest rates of child mortality.

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  • Since 2007, Peru has saved more than 350,000 kids from being stunted

    February 15, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Peru, San Isidro

    Peru formerly had one of the highest rates of stunting in South America, with chronic malnutrition affecting more than 1 in 4 children under five. Thanks to results-based budgeting and a government-wide commitment to fighting child poverty, the country has halved that rate, improving the long-term health and cognitive development of its youngest citizens.

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  • How Nepal Managed to Curb Its Stunting Problem

    January 08, 2018 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: Nepal

    Nepal is integrating nutrition services into primary care to curb malnutrition and stunting in children. Education and access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services are part of keeping children healthy enough to maintain bodyweight. The Nepalese government recognized that to build a healthy society they needed to address malnutrition, so they invested in primary care outreach clinics. The country has cut its incidence of stunting in half since expanding services.

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  • Madagascar fights the subtler side of hunger: chronic malnutrition

    July 26, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Madagascar, Antsirabe

    Starvation has become a public health crisis across Madagascar, Ethiopia, and Somaliland, but enhanced health education is helping to mitigate this critical issue. The focus of the community education programs is aimed towards increasing knowledge around the connection between nutrition and health and implements strategies such as how to properly desiccate fruits and vegetables.

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  • 'Bribing' Mums To Feed Their Kids

    December 18, 2016 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Peru, Tarma, Junín

    One in three children in Peru are stunted by a lack of nutritious foods in their diet. In 2005, the government gave cash hand-outs to poor mothers, but only on the condition that they had regular health check-ups and their children went to school. By 2014 the number of children growing up too small had halved.

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  • Brazil Slashes Child Mortality Rates With Breastfeeding, Milk Banks

    August 02, 2016 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    Child mortality is a global problem that can be reduced by increasing breastfeeding rates; however, many mothers are either under too much cultural pressure, need to work, or cannot lactate enough milk. Brazil has devised an education program to help mothers breastfeed and has also created milk banks, through which mothers can donate excess milk to mothers who cannot produce. Additionally, Brazil offers paid maternity leave for mothers who have time to breastfeed and provide better health for their bodies as well as their new babies.

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