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)
This field article describes Action Against Hunger’s experiences with Breastfeeding Support Groups in Tajikistan.
Issue 30, April 2007 (page 11)
This article describes UNHCR’s experiences of supporting breastfeeding in a refugee camp setting, and how the ‘breastfeeding corners’ initially established evolved into community based support approach.
Issue 31, September 2007 (page 32)
Summary of published experiences.
Issue 31, September 2007 (page 6)
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)
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)
This time last year, I was cooking spaghetti for 300 new arrivals at a camp for Kosovar refugees in Albania.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 7)
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 published paper.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 3)
Summary of presentation.
Issue 19, July 2003 (page 28)
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)
The stated aim of these guidelines is to inform Oxfam health personnel about the problems of feeding infants under six months old in emergencies and to provide some practical guidance on ways of overcoming these problems.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 5)
This draft document from the World Health is intended to set out principles which can be used to guide programme implementation.
Issue 3, January 1998 (page 17)
Among the greatest programme challenges of recent years for United Nations agencies working in child health and nutrition, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, has been the prevention of transmission of the deadly HIV virus from mother to infant.
Issue 6, February 1999 (page 15)
Summary of published research.
Issue 20, November 2003 (page 15)
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)
To the uninitiated, Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE) may seem like a pretty innocuous topic which gets a lot of media coverage when crises occur. .
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 3)
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)
Interested in what happens to infants during an emergency?Wondering what came out of the Croatia Conference on Infant Feeding in Emergencies in October ‘98?.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 13)
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)
Letters in the Lancet.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 6)
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)
André Briend has made an error in his valuable article on elimination of deficiency disease epidemics (FE 21 March 2004). .
Issue 23, November 2004 (page 16)
Letters.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 16)
Where have we gone wrong? Why is it that when food supplies get stretched, NGO and international staff still think of infant formula rather than supplementing the diets of the lactating mothers affected.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 11)
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)
Letter from the Sheffi eld Area Contact, Baby Milk Action & BfN Registered Breastfeeding Supporter, UK.
Issue 31, September 2007 (page 20)
Summary of published review.
Issue 19, July 2003 (page 10)
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 article is an overview of an ongoing study in Lusaka, Zambia, which is working on modifying complementary (infant) foods with a-amylase. Given the critical need to develop at a local level, palatable, affordable and nutritious complementary foods for HIV positive mothers which allow abrupt weaning following breast-feeding, the initiative described here is an important development. (Ed).
Issue 25, May 2005 (page 11)
A paper and recently summarised editorial.
Issue 19, July 2003 (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)
Aformer employee of Nestle has publicised internal company documents that he says provide evidence that the company has breached the international code on marketing breast milk substitutes.
Issue 10, July 2000 (page 11)
Summary of published research.
Issue 30, April 2007 (page 10)
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)
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 published letter.
Issue 8, November 1999 (page 8)
Summary of meeting.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 37)
Summary of research.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 6)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 14, November 2001 (page 3)
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)
This article is based on findings of a report written by Mark Myatt which, in turn, is based on the findings of research undertaken by Save the Children UK in DRC.
Issue 26, November 2005 (page 5)
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)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 5)
Having spent the last few years working as a field nutritionist with an NGO and with a background in paediatric dietetics, the opportunity to carry out some infant feeding research was my picture of the perfect job.
Issue 9, March 2000 (page 12)
Summary of published research.
Issue 27, March 2006 (page 10)
In your Editorial comment to the tinned beef letter, you describe correctly the budgetary problem of 'expensive' commodities like canned meat (fish or cheese) and how these replace much larger quantities of basic commodities available for food assistance.
Issue 3, January 1998 (page 21)
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)