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.
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.
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.
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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Photo by Vincent Assey
Photo from Erika Andresen’s (formerly Bergström) thesis.
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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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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.
This was a comment I was requested to write by The Lancet medical journal.
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This letter to editor in response to an article by Paul Farmer that I wrote with colleagues in PATH and EGPAF, can be read here.
During 2005-6, with input from Kathy Krasovec, help from Jennifer Marcy, and graphic design work by Jennifer Fox (all of PATH), I created two algorithms to assist counselors in advising HIV-infected mothers when it might be acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe to stop breastfeeding. If you click on “more” below, you can see the letter I wrote providing some explanation and references for desiging diets for non-breastfed infants.
I also presented them at the WHO HIV and Infant Feeding Technical Consultation in October 2006 in Geneva. These simplied versions benefitted from feedback from two groups who reviewed them at that meeting.
Click here to see the algorithms (one for infants 6-12 mo and one for older infants) in powerpoint format, each divided in two, making the text larger and easier to read.
