Nutrition Unit
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Announcements
Focusing on Anemia (Statement, 2004)
WHO and UNICEF reiterate the urgent need to combat anemia, and stress the importance of recognizing its multifactorial etiology for developing effective control programs.(14/Dec/2004)
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Technical Documents
ProPAN: Process for the Promotion of Child Feeding
ProPAN is a manual aimed at Ministries of Health, NGO’s, and international organizations interested in improving infant and young child feeding practices. It describes a step-by-step process to identify nutritional and dietary problems, to determine why these problems occur, and to design and evaluate an intervention plan based on the problems identified. It contains software in an EPI INFO format for the analysis of infant and young child diets. (© PAHO, 2003)(15/Oct/2003)
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Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child (Guide, 2002)
These extensive guidelines based on WHO, UNICEF and other sources provide the bases for developing recommendations on complementary feeding--the process of introducing other foods and liquids when breast milk alone is no longer sufficient.(1/May/2003)
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