Nutrition News for Africa

Good NEWS for the Fight Against Malnutrition Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Power a Nutrition Early Warning System (NEWS) for Africa

Nutrition News for Africa

Preservation of biodiversity, and particularly agricultural biodiversity, has been recognized as being critical to sustaining productive ecosystems, and has been suggested as a viable strategy to promote adequate human nutrition and food security (1). In sub-Saharan Africa, farm sizes are generally small, have been declining and are expected to continue to decline over the next decades. At the ...

NEWS for Africa: adaptation and reliability of a built environment questionnaire for physical activity in seven African countries

BACKGROUND Built environment and policy interventions are effective strategies for controlling the growing worldwide deaths from physical inactivity-related non-communicable diseases. To improve built environment research and develop African specific evidence, it is important to first tailor built environment measures to African contexts and assess their psychometric properties across African c...

Nutrition News for Africa

The potential for agricultural interventions to improve nutritional status has received increasing attention in recent years. However, as noted in Paper 3 of the 2013 Lancet Nutrition Series, evidence for the effectiveness of these programs is generally limited, with the exception of promotion of orange sweet potatoes (1). In particular, many studies have included small sample sizes and/or weak...

Nutrition News for Africa

To scale up primary health care services in Ethiopia, a program of female health extension workers (HEWs) was established in 2003 to deliver 17 service packages ranging from child survival and nutrition interventions, maternal and neonatal care, and hygiene and environmental sanitation measures at health posts in rural communities. Community volunteers are trained to support the HEWs and to fac...

Nutrition News for Africa

1 Ackatia-Armah R, McDonald CM, Doumbia S, Erhardt JG, Hamer DH, Brown KH. Malian children with moderate acute malnutrition who are treated with lipid-based dietary supplements have greater weight gains and recovery rates than those treated with locally produced cereal-legume products: a communitybased, cluster-randomized trial Am J Clin Nutr 2015 ajcn.069807; First published online January 7, ...