by Sharmin Sultana | Mar 8, 2019 | uncategorized
© 2017 Dr. Mohd. Irfan Ahamad Seyyed, Courtesy of Photoshare March 8th marks International Women’s Day, an annual celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political contributions of women. Since 1911, International Women’s Day has been an official day to...
by Sharmin Sultana | Mar 4, 2019 | uncategorized
© 2016 Sanjeeta/CCP India, Courtesy of Photoshare In early 2019, the WHO released global guidance that recommends breastfeeding counseling for all women starting during pregnancy up until the child is two years or older. However, data on the coverage of breastfeeding...
by Sharmin Sultana | Mar 1, 2019 | uncategorized
Over the past five months, Data for Decisions to Expand Nutrition Transformation (DataDENT) has been working with a diverse group of lead authors and technical reviewers from the nutrition community to develop a set of ten recommendations for the Demographic and...
by Sharmin Sultana | Dec 6, 2018 | uncategorized
The Demographic Health Survey (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) are primary sources of nationally-representative maternal, newborn, child health, and nutrition data for the global health community. In an online survey conducted by DataDENT earlier...
by Sharmin Sultana | Dec 5, 2018 | uncategorized
The full meeting report, presentations, and working group notes from the Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments (September 19-20, 2018) are now available on the DataDENT website...
by Sharmin Sultana | Nov 25, 2018 | uncategorized
Health Extension Worker Meseret Mekura sits in front of graphs outlining the state of health in her community at Remeda Health Post, Sidama Health Zone, Ethiopia. © 2012 Kate Hawkins/Pamoja Communications, Courtesy of Photoshare A nutrition data revolution The 2014...
