Alive & Thrive: Expanding community interventions to improve nutrition in Bangladesh

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dc.creatorHaque, Raisul
dc.creatorAfsana, Kaosar
dc.creatorSanghvi, Tina
dc.creatorSiraj, Saiqa
dc.creatorMenon, Purnima
dc.date2012
dc.date2024-10-01T13:58:19Z
dc.date2024-10-01T13:58:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:12:47Z
dc.descriptionThe levels of stunting, underweight, wasting, and childhood anemia are very high in Bangladesh, as are levels of maternal chronic energy deficiency and maternal and child anemia. A combination of poor maternal nutrition and postnatal factors cause child undernutrition, which in turn can have far-reaching consequences for national and global development, as well as individual health. Studies in Bangladesh show that infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, a critical determinant of child nutrition, are poor. Interventions to address them at a large scale are urgently needed, including behavior-change counseling for early and exclusive breastfeeding, age-appropriate complementary feeding and micronutrient supplementation, provision of micronutrient supplements or fortified complementary foods, hygiene interventions, and nutritional management of severe-acute undernutrition. Alive & Thrive (A&T) seeks to develop scaled-up models for preventing child undernutrition by improving IYCF practices. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, A&T’s interventions focus on achieving behavior change through existing service-delivery platforms, especially the health worker network of BRAC, the largest nongovernmental organization in Bangladesh. This brief focuses on A&T’s use of BRAC’s Essential Health Care (EHC) program in 2009–2011 as its operational platform. During this time, 9,000 managers, mid-level staff, workers, and volunteers were trained in interpersonal counseling, and an IYCF-oriented social mobilization strategy reached 15 million people.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153908
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/97838
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/155313
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceHaque, Raisul; Afsana, Kaosar; Sanghvi, Tina; Siraj, Saiqa; Menon, Purnima 2012. Alive & Thrive: Expanding community interventions to improve nutrition in Bangladesh. In Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition, eds. Linn, Johannes F. 2020 Vision Focus Brief 19(10). Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153908
dc.subjectscaling up
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectrural development
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectchild nutrition
dc.subjectinfant feeding
dc.subjectchild feeding
dc.titleAlive & Thrive: Expanding community interventions to improve nutrition in Bangladesh
dc.typeBrief

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