Globally, there remain significant knowledge and evidence gaps around how to support Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes to achieve high coverage and quality of interventions.
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To Achieve Total Irrigation, Nitish Kumar Must Subsidise Water Pumps, Not Electricity
To Achieve Total Irrigation, Nitish Kumar Must Subsidise Water Pumps, Not Electricity Bihar is set to elect a new government
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
The National elections in India may well be over, but the persistent issue of malnutrition still holds the nation in its tight grip. And yet, of the myriads of topical issues that comprised political propaganda, including caste, religion, employment, farmer upliftment, and even social transfers, none of the political parties raised this critical issue. The twin problems of malnutrition and nutritional insecurity are particularly severe in rural India. Source: IFPRI South Asia Office
Stopping Muzaffarpur Child Deaths Will Require a Gender-Sensitive Social Analysis
Muzaffarpur is emblematic of a hot spot for undernutrition in India. With one in two children stunted, Muzaffarpur lags India’s average by ten percentage points. One in two women is anaemic and one in three is underweight. Although most infants are breastfed and exclusive breastfeeding is high, other aspects of infant diets are abysmal and childhood illness is high. Other social determinants of malnutrition – early marriage, poverty, open defecation and more – offer a case study in what one could call a “perfect storm” of risk factors. Source: IFPRI South Asia Office
Coverage of Nutrition and Health Interventions in BIHAR: Insights from the National Family Health Survey-4
Coinciding with the observance of National Nutrition Month in September, when nation-wide activities are being organized under POSHAN Abhiyaan to address the nutritional challenges, we present this Data Note that describes the coverage of a set of key nutrition and health interventions in the state of Bihar in India. The findings here are based on data from >> Read more Source: POSHAN: Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India
