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Anemia Toolkit

Guideline: Iron Supplementation in Postpartum Women

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Anemia
This WHO guideline reviews the evidence on the safety and effectiveness of iron supplementation in postpartum women.
Anemia Toolkit

Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) Initiative, a Pooled Birth Cohort of 13 Pregnancy Studies in Africa and the Western Pacific

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Anemia
The Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative has pooled data from 13 studies covering 8 countries in Africa and Papua New Guinea (from 1996 to 2015) with the goals of improving the understanding of malaria-nutrition interactions during pregnancy and fostering collaboration between nutritionists and malariologists.
Anemia Toolkit

Review of the Evidence Regarding the Use of Antenatal Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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Anemia
This review presents the conclusions of a task force that set out to assess the prevalence of inadequate micronutrient intakes and adverse birth outcomes in low- and middle-income countries; the data from trials comparing multiple-micronutrient supplements that contain iron–folic acid with iron–folic acid supplements alone; the risks of reaching the upper intake levels with multiple-micronutrie
Anemia Toolkit

Prediction of Dietary Iron Absorption: An Algorithm for Calculating Absorption and Bioavailability of Dietary Iron

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Anemia
This study presents an algorithm that was developed for predicting the effects of factors known to influence heme- and non-heme-iron absorption from meals and diets.
Anemia Toolkit

Nutrient Biofortification of Food Crops

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Anemia
This review provides a picture of biofortification techniques, fortification compounds, and measurements of nutritional parameters.
Anemia Toolkit

Why Nutritional Iron Deficiency Persists as a Worldwide Problem

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Anemia
This narrative review highlights the significance of iron deficiency as a worldwide problem. Programmatic and technical obstacles are discussed, and potential solutions for reducing iron deficiency prevalence are offered.
Anemia Toolkit

Four Malaria Success Stories: How Malaria Burden was Successfully Reduced in Brazil, Eritrea, India and Vietnam

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Anemia
This report documents the malaria control efforts of Brazil, Eritrea, India, and Vietnam and discusses key factors in the success of these programs, including epidemiological, technical, programmatic, partnership, and financial aspects.
Anemia Toolkit

Integrated Anemia Control Strategy Has Significantly Reduced Anemia in Women and Children in Nicaragua

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Anemia
This report describes the Integrated Anemia Control Strategy (IACS), which was implemented in Nicaragua in 1994.
Anemia Toolkit

Monitoring Drug Coverage for Preventive Chemotherapy

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Anemia
This WHO manual provides program managers with standardized guidelines for monitoring and reporting of drug coverage for preventive chemotherapy. It includes definitions as well as tools for collecting, analyzing, and controlling data.
Anemia Toolkit

Implications of Malaria on Iron Deficiency Control Strategies

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Anemia
This review synthesizes evidence on the links between iron and malaria and explores underlying mechanisms such as a possible mechanistic role of hepcidin in the link between malaria, poor absorption of iron, and anemia. The review also highlights the importance of malaria surveillance and control as necessary components of programs to combat iron deficiency.
Anemia Toolkit

Impact of Malaria during Pregnancy on Low Birth Weight in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Anemia
This systematic review synthesizes the evidence from sub-Saharan Africa on the impact of maternal malaria on low birthweight and analyzes the associations between low birthweight and the rate of malaria transmission. The authors estimate that about 100,000 deaths in malaria-endemic regions of Africa could be attributable to low birthweight caused by malaria during pregnancy.
Anemia Toolkit

Introducing a New Monitoring Manual for Home Fortification and Strengthening Capacity to Monitor Nutrition Interventions

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Anemia
This communication introduces the Manual for Developing and Implementing Monitoring Systems for Home Fortification Interventions, a comprehensive tool that includes monitoring concepts and frameworks and provides monitoring instruments as well as worksheets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Stories from the Forefront: Interviews with Social and Behavior Change Communications Media ProfessionalsStories from the Forefront: Interviews with Social and Behavior Change Communications Media Professionals

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This report presents stories from top practitioners in social and behavior change media to help guide more effective SBC media productions and implement more sustainable programs. Themes emerged about the effectiveness of human connection and storytelling.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Prevention of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Adolescents: Role of Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation

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Anemia
This document presents a brief review of the evidence on weekly iron-folic acid supplementation (WIFS) from the scientific literature. It presents the findings from several developing countries in Asia, Africa, and South America.
Anemia Toolkit

Changing the Way We Think About Micronutrient Assessment and Anemia Programming

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Anemia
The Biomarkers Reflecting Inflammation and Nutritional Determinants of Anemia (BRINDA) project set out to improve the interpretation of iron and vitamin A biomarker results and our understanding of the main risk factors for anemia.
Anemia Toolkit

District Assessment Tool for Anemia (DATA)

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Anemia
The District Assessment Tool for Anemia (DATA) is a generic toolkit that helps districts assess their cur­rent anemia situation. SPRING developed DATA to assist countries in strengthening anemia pro­gramming at the district level.
Anemia Toolkit

Six Key Actions to Reduce Anemia

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Anemia
This brief describes country-led efforts to coordinate and implement anemia prevention and control, offering lessons learned to help other countries design the best possible solutions.
Anemia Toolkit

Multi-Sectoral Anemia Efforts at the National Level in Uganda

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Anemia
This process documentation identifies the successes and challenges of establishing a multi-sectoral anemia platform in Uganda, analyzes the key factors that led to outcomes, and identifies potential areas for making improvements to the process in terms of sustainability of efforts.
Anemia Toolkit

Comprehensive Costing in Micronutrient Supplementation

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Anemia
In this brief, SPRING present results from a cost-efficiency study of a pilot program of micronutrient powder (MNP) distribution in Namutumba district in Uganda. This brief discusses costing studies for nutrition interventions generally, and highlights how a cost-efficiency study can influence policy decisions.
Anemia Toolkit

Controlling Maternal Anemia and Malaria

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Anemia
This brief describes WHO recommendations for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy to prevent iron deficiency anemia in sub-Saharan Africa countries, and emphasizes the importance of providing the correct dose of folic acid to maximize the effectiveness of interventions to prevent malaria.