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Category: Africa, Asia, preschool age children, Vitamin A
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A wide range of newly emerging products, called ready to use supplemental foods (RUSF) or lipid-based nutritional supplements (LNS), offer a tailored, nutrient-dense food supplement for the treatment of moderately malnourished children with low risk of contamination. While their use by development agencies for specific program purposes is still under exploration, there is a risk that the private sector will exploit all the good press and “buzz” these new products are creating to start marketing them for profit. These draft guidelines are an attempt to reign in such activities BEFORE they become harmful, ingrained and linked to local vested interests. Sadly, the UN, especially WHO, which needs to take this on for it to have any real impact, has so far not taken up the issue. Click here to access the guidelines, comments on them, and responses to those comments.
This reports on two studies done with funding I applied for from USAID Kenya. The purpose was to examine the infant feeding patterns of infants exposed to HIV and to observe the infant feeding counseling the mothers received, as well as doing interviews with a sample of mothers. Click here to open the pdf file.
Category: Africa, Breastfeeding, Complementary feeding, Determinants of breastfeeding, Evaluation, HIV, Infant feeding patterns, Nutritional Status, Original research, survey
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This paper reports on the first national survey on iodine deficiency in Tanzania, conducted on over 140,000 school children, including a measure of iodine content of household salt, goiter prevalence and urinary iodine measures on a subsample of 4523. Click here to access the pdf file.
Category: Africa, Iodine deficiency, Original research, School children, survey, Tanzania
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This study was part of the research Vincent Assey did for his PhD at Bergen University (begun at Uppsala). It developed, in the field, methods for standardizing salt iodation among small producers using spray bottles and backpack sprayers. These simple technologies are the way forward, not the use of cement mixers and other intermediate scale equipment which cannot be maintained by producers surviviing on such small profit margins in such isolated areas. Click here to open the pdf file.
Category: Africa, Iodine deficiency, Original research, Tanzania
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This is a letter to the editor of the journal AIDS (Vol 23, issue 4, pp, 547-8).
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Category: Africa, HIV, preschool age children, Women at work
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This paper is another of the important studies done by Vincent Assey in his indefatigable efforts to tackle iodine deficiency disorders, a huge public health problem in his native Tanzania.
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Category: Africa, Iodine deficiency, Original research, Tanzania
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Photo from Erika Andresen’s (formerly Bergström) thesis.
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Category: Africa, Bottle feeding, HIV, Original research, South Africa
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This is a power point presentation I gave in Dubai at the 1st Regional Conference on Human Lactation:
Breastfeeding for Healthier Generations. HIV and infant feeding policy making has come far in the past few years, but as of mid 2008, there is still a lot of confusion about when an HIV+ mother who is breastfeeding should stop. More importantly, how should the decision as to whether it is acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe (AFASS) to stop be taken?
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Category: Africa, HIV, Power point presentation
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This paper is one of several that compose the PhD research done by Vincent Assey, a very dedicated Tanzanian scientist working at the Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre.
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Photo by Vincent Assey.
Category: Africa, Iodine deficiency, Original research, Tanzania
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