Objectives: West Bengal - India's most densely populated state - is home to 8.3 million adolescent girls. Surveys indicate that 62 percent of adolescent girls were anemic, despite several sectoral programmes in place. To address this situation, the Government of West Bengal launc...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21065
Objectives: To develop and operationalize a survey tool that can be used by nutrition programmers to assess and classify coverage and consumption patterns in targeted (point-of-use) and large-scale (staple) fortification programs. Methods: We focused on developing a tool that is...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21171
Saskia Osendarp, Abdulaziz Adish, Banda Ndiaye, Aregash Samuel, Inge Brouwer, Dominique Roberfroid, Patrick Kolsteren & Lynnette Neufeld·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: The Micronutrient Initiative and academic partners have designed two program impact evaluations of Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) interventions in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. The programs include enhanced behavioral change interventions on IYCN, improved quali...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21140
Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the importance of social marketing in scaling-up the consumption of iron fortified rice (IFR) in the community. Methods: Seven municipalities and one city in Zambales were randomly grouped into sentinel and non-sentinel sites. In the sentin...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21280
Richa Pandey, Jee Hyun Rah, Amit Kumar Ghosh, Shraddha Dwivedi, Subhash Chandra Gupta, Dhirendra Kumar Srivastava, Sunil Kumar Garg & Victor M. Aguayo·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Uttar Pradesh (UP) is a non-salt producing state in India. Most of the salt is imported and traded in 18 of the 75 districts in the state. In 2009, the household coverage of adequately iodized salt in UP was 43%. This presentation features the important initiative tak...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21066
Objectives: To determine if compliance with daily iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation to prevent anemia and daily IFA and calcium supplementation to prevent anemia and pre-eclampsia can be improved with counseling and by using reminder cards and cell phone messages to ensure da...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21281
Objectives: Surveys in 2002-05 indicated that the prevalence of severe forms of vitamin A deficiency in India was three-fold higher among children from schedule tribe (ST) households than among non-tribal children. Scheduled tribes constitute about 24% of the total population of...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21067
Objectives: Treatment of diarrhea with zinc and ORS has both life-saving potential and diarrhea prevention benefits, yet here we explore the barriers as to why coverage and adherence remain low. Methods: A synthesis of formative research results from nine countries (Afghanistan,...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21118
Ana Cecilia Fernandez-Gaxiola, Armando Garcia-Guerra, Lynnette M. Neufeld, Amado D. Quezada-Sanchez, Amira Hernandez-Cabrera, Anabelle Bonvecchio, Ana Lilia Lozada & Juan Rivera·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: To assess changes in physicians' and nurses nutrition knowledge and perceptions from EsIAN. EsIAN was developed to attend to the nutritional needs of Oportunidades beneficiary families. Oportunidades is the Mexican conditional cash transfer program. In Mexico, appropr...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21141
Objectives: Ensuring affordable and sustained access to quality nutritious foods at scale is critical for addressing malnutrition. With the scale-up of public health programs distributing specially formulated fortified products for treatment and prevention of malnutrition, there...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21172