Category: Infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IFE)
Summary of published research.
Issue 22, July 2004 (page 5)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 23, November 2004 (page 5)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 21, March 2004 (page 5)
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) experienced very heavy rainfall that caused severe floods in six provinces of the country during August 2007.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 42)
This article is a summary of a report commissioned by the international humanitarian organisation, World Vision, to investigate the impact of social and cultural factors on childhood malnutrition amongst the Dinka of Tonj South County, Warrap State, Southern Sudan.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 7)
Zimbabwe has a high prevalence of stunting (32%) and low prevalence of wasting/acute malnutrition (3%) (DHS 2011).
Issue 43, July 2012 (page 97)
Perinatal mortality and birth-weight reflect the quality of the intrauterine environment and complications of birth.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 16)
Summary of review.
Issue 25, May 2005 (page 13)
Avoiding transmission of HIV from mother to child after birth has become one of the greatest challenges in HIV prevention.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 27)
Summary of report and presentation.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 23)
Summary of presentation.
Issue 19, July 2003 (page 24)
This article reports the main findings of a study which aimed to address one of the ongoing debates concerning the treatment of infants <6m - which supplemental milk is the most appropriate to use in their treatment?.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 18)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 25, May 2005 (page 9)
Summary of published research.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 6)
Summary of published clinical trial.
Issue 11, December 2000 (page 3)
Summary of presentation.
Issue 19, July 2003 (page 28)
Summary of evaluation report.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 23)
This article describes ACFs experiences of managing malnourished infants under six months in an inpatient setting in a challenging environment, which leads them to raise key questions about managing this age-group.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 30)
An evaluation was recently conducted of two training modules (Module 1 and 2) on Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE) developed by the IFE Core Group (UNICEF, WHO, WFP, UNHCR, IBFAN-GIFA, CARE USA, Fondation Terre des hommes and ENN) and produced by the ENN.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 21)
This issue of Field Exchange comes out in the wake of the Haiti emergency. Although the relief effort is continuing, the acute phase of the emergency is arguably over at the time of writing, with humanitarian efforts now focused on rebuilding infrastructure – especially provision of shelter and homes.
Issue 38, April 2010 (page 2)
This article shares the perspective of three individuals in Zimbabwe, directly involved in rollout of community based support to infant and young child feeding (cIYCF). The content was captured in an exchange between the authors during training between 10-14th of October, 2011 in Gokwe North, one of the districts in Zimbabwe. A postscript by Fitsum Assefa (UNICEF Zimbabwe) provides some context to the cIYCF approach in Zimbabwe.
Issue 43, July 2012 (page 95)
Summary of published research.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 15)
This article shares the challenges of conducting a survey of the health, nutrition and livelihood conditions of Iraqi Refugees living amongst the local population in the North East of Syria.
Issue 39, September 2010 (page 26)
Guidelines on nutritional survey methodologies currently stipulate that children between 6 to 59 months should be surveyed.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 15)
Natural disasters are common in Indonesia. While still recovering from a series of such events, a severe earthquake struck Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces during the morning hours of May 27, 2006.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 30)
The HIV pandemic sweeping southern Africa and other parts of sub- Saharan Africa is increasingly being perceived and described as a chronic emergency.
Issue 22, July 2004 (page 26)
Summary of Published paper.
Issue 8, November 1999 (page 7)
MSc Thesis.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 7)
The comments in the letter to the editors (Field Exchange, issue 2) on the article "Infant Feeding in Emergencies: Experience from Former Yugoslavia" saddened me a little.
Issue 3, January 1998 (page 20)
War in the former Yugoslavia presented a relatively new situation to the international aid community whose prior emergency experience had mostly been in less developed countries.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 3)
On the 27th May 2006 a strong earthquake had a devastating impact on two provinces on Java Island in Indonesia killing 5,778 people. Major infrastructural damage left 3.2 million people affected.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 3)
Between October and December last year escalating civil conflict led to hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees returning from refugee camps in eastern Zaire to Rwanda.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 4)
Published Report.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 5)
This article describes the infant feeding situation and the initial interventions to protect, promote and support appropriate infant feeding practices during the relief efforts in Pakistan following the 8 October 2005 earthquake.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 3)
Summary of published research.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 10)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 26, November 2005 (page 7)
As a result of concerns expressed about the usage of infant formula and a need for more information regarding weaning practices during and after the conflict in Kosovo, Action Against Hunger-UK began to examine infant feeding practices in the area and found that some aspects of infant feeding were extremely poor.
Issue 8, November 1999 (page 27)
Summary of published research.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 26)
Summary of a review.
Issue 14, November 2001 (page 7)
Summary of assessment.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 6)
This article is based on interviews by Mary Corbett with Matron Hilda Kamera and Dr Athnase Kiromera, and a project visit by Mary, accompanied by Gertrude Kara, WFP.
Issue 25, May 2005 (page 19)
I read with great interest the articles on infant feeding in the first issue of Field Exchange. I was at the time working in a centre for unaccompanied Rwandan refugee children in Kisangani, Zaire (now Stanleyville, Democratic Republic of Congo). .
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 9)
We would like to comment on the article "Infant Feeding in Emergencies: Experience from Former Yugoslavia" (Field Exchange, Issue 1, May '97). .
Issue 2, August 1997 (page 8)
In January 2010, the report of ‘The Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants aged <6 months’ (the MAMI project) was released.
Issue 43, July 2012 (page 63)
recent paper reviews the research over the last 10 years investigating whether there is an association between maternal depression and infant growth impairment.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 36)
Summary of published research.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 12)
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Issue 29, December 2006 (page 10)
This piece summarises an IFE training led by country delegates as an action arising from the regional IFE workshop held in Bali 10-13th March 2008.
Issue 35, March 2009 (page 22)
The Philippines lies along the typhoon belt of the Western Pacific, making it prone to various hydro-meteorological hazards.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 38)
The Alive and Thrive Project1 is supporting a two-year, field-based study on the integration of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) into Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) in Ethiopia.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 31)
During the period 2006 through the present, CARE, UNHCR, GTZ, IRC, NCCK and other partners have worked in an interagency collaboration (the Dadaab IYCF Team) to provide support for improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in the Dadaab Camps.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 23)
Maaike’s observations concur with many of our experiences around infant feeding in emergencies (IFE) in previous humanitarian interventions.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 5)
Postscript.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 10)
Following on from the article on infant feeding in emergencies, which appeared in the March 2000 issue of Field Exchange, we wish to add our thoughts on the use of the supplemental suckling technique, drawing on our experience from the therapeutic feeding centre in Kabaya district hospital, in Gisenyi, Rwanda, which Save the Children (UK) was supporting.
Issue 13, August 2001 (page 23)
This article outlines the challenges in implementing a response on infant and young child feeding at scale in Myanmar in 2008. It draws upon a review by Save the Children UK on the Save the Children Alliance ‘IFE response’ to cyclone Nargis.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 31)
Summary of research.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 6)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 14, November 2001 (page 3)
The Haiti earthquake of January 12th 2010 made headline news worldwide given the extent of damage and of loss of life, as well as the profound impact on already vulnerable children and families. While the exact number of deaths and injuries caused by the earthquake may never be known, the Government estimates that 222,750 people (2% of the population) were killed and 300,572 were injured.
Issue 41, August 2011 (page 65)
Summary of published research.
Issue 36, July 2009 (page 9)
Since the collapse of the Somali Central Government in 1991, the country has faced a series of disasters, both natural (floods and droughts) and man-made (poor governance, armed conflict, and collapse of institution/infrastructure).
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 7)
The aim of the International Code of the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes is to protect and promote breastfeeding, and to ensure the proper use of breastmilk substitutes, when they are necessary, on the basis of adequate information and through appropriate marketing and distribution.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 3)
This article describes the experiences of the Nutrition Cluster in response to the Haiti earthquake which struck in January 2010. The article aims to capture what the cluster did well and what it did not do so well in the first month of the response and to highlight key lessons for future Nutrition Cluster Coordination and for UNICEF as the cluster lead agency.
Issue 39, September 2010 (page 2)
Summary of report.
Issue 39, September 2010 (page 20)
Summary of published research.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 10)
Infants under 6 months are particularly vulnerable in emergencies, usually as a result of inappropriate feeding practices. Interventions to prevent and treat infant malnutrition in emergencies depend on an accurate assessment of infant nutritional status and a prerequisite to weighing is an effective set of weighing scales.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 12)
This article shares the practical realities of identifying wet nurses for young orphans where artificial feeding was not considered an acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe option.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 26)