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This piece looks at the rates of HIV/AIDs among children in Sub-Saharan Africa and current programs to address such rates. https://blog.savethechildren.org/category/u-s-programs/child-survival

ABSTRACT An analysis of early growth patterns in children from 54 resource-poor countries in Africa and Southeast Asia shows a rapid falloff in the height-for-age z score during the first 2 y of life and no recovery until ≥5 y of age. This finding has focused attention on the period -9 to 24 mo as a...

Background Every year, malnutrition claims the lives of 3 million children under age five and costs the global economy billions of dollars in lost productivity and health care costs. Yet those losses are almost entirely preventable. A large body of scientific evidence shows that improving nutrition...

The Kid’s Healthy Eating Plate is a visual guide to help educate and encourage children to eat well and keep moving. At a glance, the graphic features examples of best-choice foods to inspire the selection of healthy meals and snacks, and it emphasizes physical activity as part of the equation for...

This toolkit provides a variety of resources that form a platform for strengthening policy makers, program managers and service providers' capacity to promote access to maternal, newborn and child heath care. Developed by the Peace Corps, the toolkit includes information on: pregnancy and birth...

A briefing note from the World Bank Group and UNICEF – finds that children in developing countries are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty. Highlights Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children – a briefing note from the World Bank Group and UNICEF – finds that children...

The Health Library for Disasters (HELID) is the most complete electronic information resource on public health for emergency preparedness and response and complex emergencies. An inter-agency effort, HELID contains more than 650 full-text documents, including technical guidelines, manuals, field...

This guide aims to: better define focus areas of response for direct humanitarian programming and advocacy in acute phase of an emergency build consistency around a discrete 'package' of effective MNCH and nutrition services delivered in an acute phase of a disaster provide a clear rationale for...