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...
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Tina Sanghvi, Sunny S. Kim, Lan Mai Tran et al.
Improving maternal nutrition practices during pregnancy is essential to save lives and improve health outcomes for both mothers and babies. This paper examines the maternal, household, and health service factors influencing maternal nutrition practices in the context of a large scale maternal, newbo...
Rukhsana Haider, Sabrina Rasheed, Tina Sanghvi, Nazmul Hassan et al.
BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, many programs and projects have been promoting breastfeeding since the late 1980 s. Breastfeeding practices, however, have not improved accordingly. METHODS: For identifying program-relevant issues to improve breastfeeding in infancy, quantitative data were collected throu...
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...
Abu Ahmed Shamim, Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Tarana Ferdous, Kathrin Tegenfeldt et al.
BACKGROUND: Diet diversity of pregnant women is associated with nutrition sufficiency, micronutrient adequacy, and pregnancy outcomes. However, the sociodemographic determinants of diet diversity among pregnant women in low-income countries are not well studied. OBJECTIVE: The analysis was undertake...
Tina Sanghvi, Raisul Haque, Sumitro Roy, Kaosar Afsana et al.
The Alive & Thrive programme scaled up infant and young child feeding interventions in Bangladesh from 2010 to 2014. In all, 8.5 million mothers benefited. Approaches - including improved counselling by frontline health workers during home visits; community mobilization; mass media campaigns reachin...
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...
Jean Baker, Tina Sanghvi, Nemat Hajeebhoy, Luann Martin et al.
BACKGROUND: Global interest in scaling up nutrition outcomes has focused attention on the need for more effective programs to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF). However there are few examples in the literature of comprehensive programs that have been systematically designed. OBJECTIVE: T...
Sunny S. Kim, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Lan Mai Tran, Tina Sanghvi et al.
Background: Sustained improvements in infant and young child feeding (IYCF) require continued implementation of effective interventions. From 2010-2014, Alive & Thrive (A&T) provided intensive interpersonal counseling (IPC), community mobilization (CM), and mass media (MM) in Bangladesh, demonstrati...
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Tina Sanghvi, Lan Mai Tran, Kaosar Afsana et al.
Little is known about nutrition and well-being indicators of pregnant adolescents and the availability and use of nutrition interventions delivered through maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) programs. This study compared the differences between pregnant adolescents and adult pregnant women i...
Fosiul Alam Nizame, Leanne Unicomb, Tina Sanghvi, Sumitro Roy et al.
Enteric diseases are often caused by poor hygiene and can contribute to stunting. From 50 randomly selected villages in Bangladesh, we collected quantitative and qualitative data on handwashing linked to child feeding to integrate handwashing promotion into a young child complementary feeding progra...
Tina Sanghvi, Luann Martin, Nemat Hajeebhoy, Teweldebrhan Hailu Abrha et al.
BACKGROUND: Systems strengthening is essential for implementation of large-scale nutrition interventions, including infant and young child feeding (IYCF), since rapid geographic expansion places additional burdens on service delivery systems. OBJECTIVE: To document approaches for building capacity a...
Sabrina Rasheed, Rukhsana Haider, Nazmul Hassan, Helena Pachón et al.
BACKGROUND: Child undernutrition remains high in South Asian and sub-Saharan African countries. Rapid declines in nutritional status occur before the age of 2 years, particularly during the period of complementary feeding. Improving complementary feeding practices is a neglected area in nutrition pr...
Tina Sanghvi, Ann Jimerson, Nemat Hajeebhoy, Medhanit Zewale et al.
BACKGROUND: Alive & Thrive aims to increase exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. OBJECTIVE: To develop and execute comprehensive communication strategies adapted to each context. METHODS: We documented how three countries followed an estab...
Sarah R. Blackstone, Tina Sanghvi
Improving infant and young child feeding practices is critical for improving growth and reducing child mortality and morbidity. This paper aims to compare predictors of minimum dietary diversity, an important indicator of adequate complementary feeding practices, in Bangladesh in 2011 and 2014. The ...
Tina Sanghvi, Renata Seidel, Jean Baker, Ann Jimerson
This paper applies an implementation framework, based on a behavior change model, to compare four case studies of complementary feeding programs. It aims to expand our understanding of how to design and implement behavior change interventions aimed at improving complementary feeding practices. Four ...
Edward A. Frongillo, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Kuntal Kumar Saha, Tina Sanghvi et al.
Background Promoting adequate nutrition through interventions to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) has the potential to contribute to child development. Objective We examined whether an intensive intervention package that was aimed at improving IYCF at scale through the Alive & Thrive in...
Tina Sanghvi, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Manisha Tharaney, Sebanti Ghosh et al.
Antenatal care (ANC) is the largest health platform globally for delivering maternal nutrition interventions (MNIs) to pregnant women. Yet, large missed opportunities remain in nutrition service delivery. This paper examines how well evidence-based MNIs were incorporated in national policies and pro...