Adolescent and women's nutrition

Micronutrient deficiencies, infections and parasites, gender inequities, and heavy physical labor threaten women's nutritional status throughout their life cycle, in turn influencing pregnancy outcomes, family care, household food security, and local and national economic development. Adolescence and the reproductive years are periods of particular nutritional stress. AED has worked with USAID, PVO partners, and national governments to heighten the focus on women's and adolescents' nutrition and to improve programming that targets women.. AED is improving advocacy for women's nutrition through the development of evidence-based models (REDUCE-ALIVE and PROFILES) that highlight the consequences of malnutrition for policymakers and other audiences. AED's work on expansion of the Essential Nutrition Actions focuses on the use of multiple contact points to reach women with interventions that will have a positive impact on their nutritional status. AED tools for improving women's nutrition include a training manual for health workers utilizing a life cycle approach, and a guide for monitoring and evaluation among others.

Click to learn more about AED's Adolescent and women's nutrition projects:

• Breastfeeding, Antiretroviral drugs, and Nutrition Study (BAN)
• ESHE Project
• Zambia PMTCT Project
• FANTA Project
• LINKAGES PROJECT
• Nutrition Strategy Analysis
• PROFILES
• REDUCE-ALIVE
• Umoyo Network HIV/AIDS Project

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