Priority interventions to improve maternal and child diets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

ABSTRACT: Nutrition-sensitive interventions to improve overall diet quality are increasingly needed to improve maternal and child health. This study demonstrates feasibility of a structured process to leverage local expertise in formulating programmes tailored for current circumstances in South Asia and Africa. We assembled 41 stakeholders in 2 regional workshops and followed a prespecified protocol to elicit programme designs listing the human and other resources required, the intervention's mechanism for impact on diets, target foods and nutrients, target populations, and contact information for partners needed to implement the desired programme. Via this protocol, participants described 48 distinct interventions, which we then compared against international recommendations and global goals. Local

SUBMITTER: Masters WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5901374 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature