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Breastfeeding in Laos: reaching every mother and child

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Phounvah and Manivone love their work. On a humid day in Saravane Province, Lao PDR, they again start walking door to door in a small village to meet new or expectant mothers. As trained volunteers for the Lao Women’s Union (LWU), they have the critical task of delivering potentially lifesaving advice to families. Saravane province has… Read more →←
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Baby cafés: nutrition for the poorest families in Indonesia

Health and nutrition

By Anneliese McAuliffe

Saminah lives with her five children in Pandes Village on the island of Java, Indonesia. When her youngest daughter was only a few months old, her husband left to work on a construction site in another village. He never came back and does not send any money to support the family. Alone, Saminah now has to earn money to feed and educate… Read more →←

Double burden: childhood stunting and obesity in Indonesia

Health and nutrition

By Anneliese McAuliffe

Zahra and Zohra are 32-month-old twin girls living in the central Javan village of Pandes, Indonesia. The girls were born prematurely, weighing just 1.6 and 2.1 kg respectively. Since birth, they have struggled to achieve a healthy weight. Living close by is Bintang, a 15-month-old boy. Since he was six months old, his weight has soared… Read more →←
Aileen Tabio

Survive and thrive: nutrition for vulnerable children

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I’ve known since my college years that I wanted to work in health. I became even more interested when I did volunteer work in Burundi, in Central Africa. The land there is very fertile, anything can grow, and there were fruits and flowers everywhere. I became fascinated with how poverty affected children’s nutrition. I couldn’t… Read more →←
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Nutrition in Timor-Leste, where half of all children are stunted

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I’m the regional nutrition adviser for UNICEF in East Asia and the Pacific. I recently visited the small, young island country of Timor-Leste, to get a better understanding of the nutrition situation and UNICEF’s work on nutrition there. During the visit I went to the district of Ermera. The rough, muddy road to Ermera winds up the… Read more →←

Making breastfeeding hip: the success of 10m2 of Love in China

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The success of fast food chains in China, along with much of the world, has been very much dependent on the success of slick and wide spread marketing. Taste and quality have come second to the dictates of good sales techniques that play on perceptions of upward mobility, convenience and success. As the recent rotten meat scandal… Read more →←
The green armband on this Filipino baby girl shows that she is not malnourished

Photos: Nutrition – let’s make it everybody’s business!

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I read a thought-provoking meme on Facebook this morning that said: “We should be paying farmers to keep us healthy instead of paying doctors to heal our illnesses.” Most of us are happy to have a doctor around when we fall ill, but nevertheless there is a lot of truth in the above statement!  How much suffering and illness could we… Read more →←
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World Prematurity Day and the need for accelerated action

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17 November is World Prematurity Day. This is a great opportunity for UNICEF and our partners to focus much-needed global attention on the issue of premature births. Full term babies (born at 40 weeks of gestation) are physically equipped to adapt to the environment outside their mother’s womb. On the other hand, pre-term babies… Read more →←
A doctor shows a new mother the correct position for breastfeeding

World Breastfeeding Week – bringing support closer to mothers

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Breastfeeding made it again! Yes, it made the top key interventions that can save lives featured in the 2013 nutrition series in The Lancet. As a nutritionist, I was delighted to see this given that breastfeeding is not a magic bullet but simply a natural thing to do by every mother in the world. More than 800,000 child deaths every year… Read more →←

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