The Nutrition Guidelines for the Care and Support of People Living with HIV 2017, provide the most up-to-date information necessary to optimize Zambia’s health care services in providing nutrition support for people living with HIV.
Engaging the Government of Guatemala and partners in multisectoral efforts to integrate and strengthen nutrition in health and agriculture interventions, particularly those targeting women and children in the Western Highlands, FANTA has supported efforts to prevent stunting in Guatemala. This new report (available in English and Spanish) showcases our work in 2011–2017 to improve nutrition in Guatemala.
FANTA helped develop job aids for health workers in Zambia to support integration of nutrition assessment, counseling, and support (NACS) into health services for people living with HIV. The job aids cover prevention and management of malnutrition, specialized food products used to treat malnutrition, measurements for children and adults, and other topics.
FANTA-supported research on small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements in Bangladesh was cited in a featured lecture by Dr. Kathryn Dewey of the University of California, Davis at the International Union of Nutritional Sciences’ 21st International Congress of Nutrition in October 2017.
Regular monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are vital to the success of the USAID Office of Food for Peace Development Food Security Activities (FFP DFSA). Read about how FANTA developed and supported in-country workshops to equip FFP DFSA awardees to conduct rigorous M&E and help ensure effectiveness and accountability of their activities.
FANTA and the Government of Guatemala worked with stakeholders to develop evidence-based estimates for nutrition advocacy using PROFILES and to determine the cost of scaling up nutrition interventions to address the country’s high level of childhood chronic malnutrition. We also worked with stakeholders to develop a National Nutrition Advocacy plan, endorsed by the Guatemala Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SESAN), and supporting nutrition advocacy materials.
To support the Government of Zambia’s nutrition advocacy efforts, FANTA led a multi-stakeholder and multisectoral collaborative process that generated estimates of the potential benefits of improving malnutrition, a national nutrition advocacy plan, and advocacy briefs to help various sectors support nutrition.
A study by FANTA partner University of Tampere, in collaboration with the University of Malawi College of Medicine, showed that an eye-tracking method to study infant cognition is feasible and acceptable in rural Malawi. The method could advance nutrition research by allowing critical aspects of healthy growth in children in low-income countries to be compared to the most up-to-date knowledge on healthy child development.
FANTA event in Lusaka highlights the project’s successes, challenges, lessons, and recommendations for integrating nutrition assessment, counseling, and support into Zambia’s health services.
Indonesia’s updated Minimum Service Standards (MSS) at the district level define health services that must be provided to its citizens. FANTA has produced two technical briefs to orient district health administrators (DHAs) and heads of districts and governors (who oversee DHAs) on why nutrition is important to achieve the MSS district health indicators. The briefs also provide guidance on nutrition interventions needed to improve health and nutrition outcomes and achieve the MSS district health indicators.
