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The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, August 2016
Anemia
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American Journal of Public Health, July 2016
The Impact of an Intervention to Improve Malaria Care in Public Health Centers on Health Indicators of Children in Tororo, Uganda (PRIME): A Cluster-Randomized Trial
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, June 2016
Effect of Anthelminthic Treatment on Helminth Infection and Related Anaemia among School-age Children in Northwestern Ethiopia
BMC Infectious Diseases, October 2016
Diagnosis of Iron Deficiency Anemia Using Density-based Fractionation of Red Blood Cells
Lab on a Chip, October 2016
Delaying Iron Therapy until 28 Days after Antimalarial Treatment Is Associated with Greater Iron Incorporation and Equivalent Hematologic Recovery after 56 Days in Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The Journal of Nutrition, June 2016
Consuming Iron Biofortified Beans Increases Iron Status in Rwandan Women after 128 Days in a Randomized Controlled Feeding Trial
The Journal of Nutrition, June 2016
SPRING Takes Part in the 2016 Micronutrient Forum Global Conference
This October, SPRING participated in the 2016 Micronutrient Forum Global Conference, a space for global researchers and practitioners to collaborate on promoting scale-up and sustainability of evidence-based programs to improve micronutrient adequacy. This year’s theme was Positioning Women’s Nutrition at the Centre of Sustainable Development.
Comparing Nutrition-Specific and -Sensitive Intervention Impacts on Anemia and Hemoglobin Concentrations
Introduction
- Anemia affects 25 percent of the world’s population, with disproportionately adverse effects on women of reproductive age and children in low- and middle-income countries.
- Strategies to prevent and treat anemia can be nutrition-specific or nutrition-sensitive based on whether they address immediate (specific) or underlying (sensitive) causes of nutrition.
- There exist multiple systematic reviews on both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions, but the impact of these interventions has not been comprehensively evaluated.
- A sys