Sight and Life Magazine 1/2011

SIGHT AND LIFE | VOL. 25 (1) | 2011WHAT'S NEW89Launches Valuable Resources:10n Update 2010With the exception of reported data on Guatemala (whichcomes from the 2008-09 Encuesta Nacional de Salud MaternoInfantil (ENSMI), a Regional Health Survey), the studysummarizes data from the results of Demographic and HealthSurveys (DHS) providing population level estimates of keynutrition indicators and carried out between 2003 and 2009in 35 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, South/Southeast Asia,Latin America, and the Caribbean. The majority of thesecountries are among those identified in the 2008 LancetSeries on Maternal and Child Nutrition as having the greatestburden of undernutrition. All the data presented in this documentwere re-run for comparative purposes and thus somenumbers in the report might not be an exact match with theDHS final country reports.With nutrition gaining more visibility at all levels internationally,regionally and nationally, the USAID NutritionUpdate 2010 is an important resource. The 36-page documentprovides information on nutritional status, anemia status,breastfeeding, the introduction of solid, semi-solid or softfoods, minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal frequency,minimum acceptable diet, women’s dietary diversity, andmicronutrient supplementation among pregnant and postpartumwomen and infant and young children (less thanfive years).The English document is available atwww.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/NUT4/NUT4.pdf