Megan Deitchler

TL;DR: Assessment of simple indicators of dietary diversity, such as could be generated from large household surveys, to serve as proxy indicators of micronutrient adequacy for population-level assessment showed moderate predictive strength for the best choice indicators, which varied by site.

TL;DR: The global burden of malnutrition continues to be high and progress toward reaching Millennium Development Goal 1 has been slow, and previously unrecognized extremely poor breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices and lack of comprehensive data on intervention coverage require urgent action to improve child nutrition.

TL;DR: A validation study of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) a 9 item 4 frequency (9I 4F) measurement scale to assess the access component of household food insecurity in resource-poor areas is described.

TL;DR: The Household Hunger Scale (HHS) is a simple, new indicator to assess household hunger in food insecure areas that allows for estimating the percent of households affected by three different severities of household hunger.

TL;DR: This article showed that children successfully treated for moderate acute malnutrition with soy/whey RUSF are more likely to remain well-nourished than those treated with CSB++.