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Technical Consultation Reports: Nutrition in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) (November 14, 2003) and Young Child Feeding and the DHS (April 16, 2004)
Initiated by the United States Agency for International Development in 1984, the DHS assist developing countries in collecting, analyzing, and using data to improve national programs to address family planning, maternal and child health, child survival, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, and reproductive health.
FANTA, in collaboration with ORC Macro, hosted two meetings to review the nutrition sections of the surveys and to present the nutrition data in the DHS documents. There were four discussion areas at the November 2003 Technical Consultation: Anthropometry and Women’s Nutrition, Infant Feeding (Breastfeeding), Young Child Feeding (Complementary Feeding), and Micronutrients. Dr. Altrena Mukuria, Nutrition Specialist in the DHS program at ORC Macro, presented an overview of the nutrition sections of the DHS and issues that required revisions and some of the constraints to the revision process. At the 2004 follow-up meeting, which reviewed sections of the DHS specific to young child feeding, Dr. Mukuria outlined issues for discussion and modification related to young child feeding. Ms. Mary Arimond, Scientist from the International Food Policy Research Institute, shared results from an analyses of DHS data. Using the framework of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child, she summarized suggestions for revising selected questions in the DHS and ways to present key young child feeding indicator data.
The results from both technical consultations were combined into one final report, which can be downloaded here, as can the presentations that were made at the individual meetings.
Download the 2003 presentation
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