Ruth Situma

The Home Fortification Community of Practice: An Approach to Improve Inter-country Communication and Collaboration to Support the Implementation and Scaling-up of Home Fortification Programs

Arnold Timmer, Abel Irena, Kathy Ho, Ruth Situma, Amy Dempsey & Scott Schaffter · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: Home fortification is an innovative way to improve the diet with essential nutrients for targeted vulnerable groups who have higher requirements or do not benefit from other micronutrient interventions. As a relatively new program, there is a tremendous need for techn...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20995

Home Fortification with a Small-quantity, Lipid-based Nutritional Supplement to Improve Complementary Feeding and Child Nutritional Status in Kasenga (DR Congo)

Aissatta Moussa Abba, Ambroise Namema, Simeon Nanama, Eric Ategbo, Fanny Sandalinas, Roland Kupka, Heather Clayton, Zuguo Mei, Ruth Situma & Katie Tripp · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: To address the high prevalence of anemia and chronic malnutrition (71% and 43% among children <5 respectively), UNICEF and CDC supported the Ministry of Public Health to develop an integrated IYCN pilot program in October 2012, which includes the distribution of a...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21282