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Welcome!

The AED Center for Nutrition is a resource for technical expertise, program design and management, and information services. The Center builds upon the 45-year history of the Academy for Educational Development (AED), an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems. AED believes that nutrition is an essential component of human and national development. AED supports nutrition activities, ranging from comprehensive programs to short-term technical assistance, product research and marketing, and evaluation in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, as well as the United States.

Highlights

Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual provides program managers, practitioners, and technical specialists addressing severe acute malnutrition with the essential design, implementation and evaluation protocols for implementing the CTC approach. As the CTC model is evolving, this first edition offers a solid foundation to build CTC programs at local and national levels. The manual is a product of collaboration between AED's FANTA Project (funded by USAID), Valid International, Concern Worldwide, and Development Cooperation Ireland.

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The Center

The AED Center for Nutrition is dedicated to bringing about positive changes in the actions of individuals, communities, and institutions that will improve the health and well-being of nutritionally vulnerable populations around the world. The Center works at multiple levels with regional institutions, government agencies, the private sector, and community-based organizations.

Nutrition Areas

The Center focuses on:
» Infant and young child
    feeding
» Infant feeding in the
   context of HIV/AIDS
» Adolescent and women's
    nutrition
» Micronutrients and
    fortification
» Nutrition and HIV/AIDS
» Nutrition in emergencies
» Nutrition-related chronic
    disease
» Nutrition and food security
    links

Programs

AED's Global Health, Population & Nutrition Center currently manages more than 15 large-scale international nutrition-related programs. AED also manages 8 nutrition-related programs in the U.S.

Results

AED nutrition projects aim to achieve measurable changes in specific behaviors at multiple levels—among family members, health providers, and policy makers.