South Asia Infant Feeding Research Network (SAIFRN)

02/08/2021

Join this webinar on building better breastfeeding counselling programmes during World Breastfeeding Week

Building Better Breastfeeding Counselling Programmes: New tools for implementation

28/09/2017

The International Congress of Nutrition is in 17 days time! The SAIFRN team will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina to present a symposium on How can communications for Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition be improved? Lessons from South Asia -
Thursday 19th October from 11.30 - 1.30 http://www.icn2017.com/index.php

19/06/2017

We are very excited to let you know that the SAIFRN supplement “The policy landscape for Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) in South Asia” has now been been published and the full content of the supplement can be found at https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-17-supplement-2. The link to the supplement is permanently accessible via the Supplements link
(https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements) on the article page of the journal website. A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SAIFRN TEAM!

BMC Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on the epidemiology of disease and the understanding of all aspects of public health. The journal has a special focus on the social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational cor...

12/08/2016

http://nourishingmillions.ifpri.info/2016/08/02/the-next-big-success/

Guest blog post by Ellen Piwoz, Senior Program Officer and Initiative Lead in the Nutrition Division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

07/08/2016

CONGRATULATIONS! Grant awarded to prevent infections in newborns - The project was one of 12 selected from over 650 submissions, and 50 finalists to Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development.

The grant has been awarded to Professor Michael Dibley, Sydney School of Public Health, together with Dr Yasir Bin Nasir (PhD alumni from Sydney School of Public Health) and Professor William Tarnow-Mordi (NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre).

The Saving Lives at Birth partnership is a multi-donor international consortium that is funding innovative and groundbreaking and scalable solutions to addressing child and maternal health, and to end preventable infant and maternal deaths during the prenatal period and at birth.

This project, worth US $250,000, will be a partnership with The Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan – a leading public health research institution, as well as an agent for social development. This is an innovative project to evaluate the approach to administration and dose of bovine lactoferrin to prevent neonatal infections in low birthweight newborns in Pakistan, where severe infection is the second leading cause of neonatal mortality.

13/07/2016

An application submitted by Professor Michael Dibley, together with Dr Yasir Bin Nasir and Professor William Tarnow-Mordi has been selected to enter the final round of review for the Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge.

Their entry was entitled “Evaluating the approach to administration and dose of bovine lactoferrin to prevent neonatal infections in low birthweight newborns in Pakistan”.

To generate excitement about the Saving Lives at Birth innovators and the DevelopmentXChange, SLAB gives the public the opportunity to vote for their favourite innovations. The innovation with the most number of votes will be on honoured with the People’s Choice Award on July 28th - GO ON, VOTE!

https://savinglivesatbirth.net/summaries/2016/500

12/06/2016

Have you read this review? Impact of the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative on breastfeeding and child health outcomes: a systematic review

http://www.healthynewbornnetwork.org/resource/impact-baby-friendly-hospital-initiative-breastfeeding-child-health-outcomes-systematic-review/

08/02/2016

Did you know that SAIFRN have a YouTube channel? Take a few minutes to hear what Professor Subramanium from Harvard University has to say on maternal and child nutrition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inclDT1JxZk&index=3&list=PLu6sO0hl5TwvorKqTjDHvmYt3jDiDzthV

Professor Subu Subramanium was attending the International Conference on Maternal and Child Nutrition in Colombo, Sri Lanka on the 23rd and 24th of November ...

19/01/2016

Have you seen our interview with Dr Rae Galloway? Have a look and hear why Dr Galloway thinks maternal and child nutrition is such an important issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn56AFLlHJM&feature=youtu.be

Dr Galloway was attending the International Conference on Maternal and Child Nutrition in Colombo, Sri Lanka on the 23rd and 24th of November 2015. http://sa...

05/01/2016

23/11/2015

In rural Bangladesh, delaying 1st breastfeed until day 2 more than doubled the risk she'll die before she reaches a month old.

23/11/2015

In rural Bangladesh, only 5/1000 babies breastfed within an hr of birth will die in the first month.