Kuntal Kumar Saha, Edward A. Frongillo, Dewan S Alam, Shams El Arifeen et al.
Background The World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund recommend a global strategy for feeding infants and young children for proper nutrition and health. Objective We evaluated the effects of following current infant feeding recommendations on the gr...
David Pelletier, Edward A. Frongillo, Suzanne Gervais, Lesli Hoey et al.
Undernutrition is the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease and can be addressed through a number of highly efficacious interventions. Undernutrition generally has not received commensurate attention in policy agendas at global and national levels, however, and implementing thes...
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Rasmi Avula, Marie T. Ruel, Kuntal Kumar Saha et al.
Dietary diversity (DD) reflects micronutrient adequacy of the diet and is associated with better child growth. Emerging evidence suggests that maternal and child DD are associated. This could have measurement and programmatic implications. Data on mother-child (6-24 mo) dyads in Bangladesh, Vietnam,...
Lars Åke Persson, Shams El Arifeen, Eva‐Charlotte Ekström, Kathleen M. Rasmussen et al.
CONTEXT: Nutritional insult in fetal life and small size at birth are common in low-income countries and are associated with serious health consequences. OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS) and an early invitation to food supplementation woul...
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Sunny S. Kim, Tina Sanghvi, Zeba Mahmud et al.
Background: Maternal undernutrition is a major concern globally, contributing to poor birth outcomes. Limited evidence exists on delivering multiple interventions for maternal nutrition simultaneously. Alive & Thrive addressed this gap by integrating nutrition-focused interpersonal counseling, commu...
Purnima Menon, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Kuntal Kumar Saha, Khaled Adiba et al.
BACKGROUND: Complementary feeding (CF) contributes to child growth and development, but few CF programs are delivered at scale. Alive & Thrive addressed this in Bangladesh through intensified interpersonal counseling (IPC), mass media (MM), and community mobilization (CM). OBJECTIVE: The objective w...
Purnima Menon, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Kuntal Kumar Saha, Khaled Adiba et al.
BACKGROUND: Despite recommendations supporting optimal breastfeeding, the number of women practicing exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) remains low, and few interventions have demonstrated implementation and impact at scale. Alive & Thrive was implemented over a period of 6 y (2009-2014) and aimed to imp...
Kuntal Kumar Saha, Edward A. Frongillo, Dewan S Alam, Shams El Arifeen et al.
OBJECTIVE: Despite a strong relationship between household food security and the health and nutritional status of adults and older children, the association of household food security with the growth of infants and young children has not been adequately studied, particularly in developing countries....
Kuntal Kumar Saha, Edward A. Frongillo, Dewan S Alam, Shams El Arifeen et al.
Although household food security (HHFS) has been shown to affect diet, nutrition, and health of adults and also learning in children, no study has examined associations with infant feeding practices (IFP). We studied 1343 infants born between May 2002 and December 2003 in the Maternal and Infant Nut...
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Lieven Huybregts, Tina G. Sanghvi, Lan Mai Tran et al.
Background: The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator based on a 10-food group women dietary diversity score (WDDS-10) has been validated to assess dietary quality in nonpregnant women. Little is known about its applicability in pregnant women, and specifically pregnant adolescent gi...
Edward A. Frongillo, Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury, Eva‐Charlotte Ekström, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
This research aimed to gain in-depth understanding of the experience of household food insecurity in rural Bangladesh and to develop a direct measure of it from this understanding. Using naturalistic, emergent inquiry, in-depth interviews were conducted with 21 rural women living in diverse situatio...
Ashraful Islam Khan, Iqbal Kabir, Eva‐Charlotte Ekström, Kajsa Åsling‐Monemi et al.
BACKGROUND: There is a lack of information on the optimal timing of food supplementation to malnourished pregnant women and possible combined effects of food and multiple micronutrient supplementations (MMS) on their offspring's growth. We evaluated the effects of prenatal food and micronutrient int...
Sophie E. Moore, Andrew M. Prentice, W. Andy Coward, Antony Wright et al.
Background The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding until age 6 mo. Studies relying on mothers' self-reported behaviors have shown that lactation counseling increases both the rate and duration of exclusive breastfeeding. Objective We aimed to validate reported infant feeding...
Rasmi Avula, Purnima Menon, Saha Kuntal K., Bhuiyan Mahbubul Islam et al.
Mapping pathways of how interventions are implemented and utilized enables contextually grounded interpretation of results, differentiates poor design from poor implementation, and identifies factors that might influence the utilization of interventions. Few studies in nutrition have comprehensively...
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Edward A. Frongillo, Tina Sanghvi, Gargi Wable Grandner et al.
Background: Although husbands may provide support during pregnancy, limited evidence exists on how to promote husbands' engagement and what impact it has. Alive & Thrive integrated nutrition-focused interventions, targeting both wives and husbands, through an existing Maternal, Neonatal, and Child H...