Nutrition Areas of Emphasis

The AED Center for Nutrition provides assistance to programs focusing on a broad range of nutrition challenges. AED's technical experts provide global leadership in food security, infant and young child feeding, vitamin A and other micronutrient deficiencies, application of computer-based advocacy models for nutrition, community therapeutic care for management of severe acute malnutrition, infant feeding in the context of HIV, and nutritional care and support of people with HIV/AIDS.

AED works with partners to integrate nutrition into the strategic planning process, develop nutrition guidelines and policies, integrate essential nutrition actions (ENA) into maternal, newborn, and child health services, apply a systematic behavior change approach in community-based nutrition programs in order to achieve measureable changes in practices, and improve program monitoring and evaluation.