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The Knowledge Hub brings together existing knowledge, guidance, tools, and other useful resources related to women’s nutrition, maternal nutrition, and evidence-based interventions targeting women, such as prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS).

The Knowledge Hub is a dynamic, publicly accessible repository. It will be expanded and further improved over time, and we ask for your help in this. Please share any resources that you believe should be included in this Knowledge Hub, and send them to [email protected].

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  • Coffee and Chai Chats
  • Global
  • Implementation
  • Implementation tool
Kalpana Beesabathuni October 2021

Coffee and Chai Chat: Supply Readiness Assessment Tool for MMS

This Coffee and Chai Chat with Kalpana Beesabathuni is on the Supply Readiness Assessment Tool for MMS by Sight and Life.

  • Global
  • Advocacy
  • Guidance document
DSM March 2019

Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation to Support a Healthy Start in Life

This White Paper on Nutrition Improvement Solutions by DSM explains how micronutrient supplements can reduce nutritional anemia during pregnancy and improve birth outcomes.

  • Global
  • Policy and policy development
  • Guidance document
Nutrition International November 2020

Cost-effectiveness analyses for the WHO review on multiple micronutrient supplements during pregnancy: Technical Report

This technical report was prepared by Nutrition International in November 2019 to provide the World Health Organization Guideline Development Group with additional cost-effectiveness analyses to support the guideline review process for the nutritional interventions update on Multiple Micronutrient Supplements (MMS) during pregnancy (released July 2020). This report includes custom cost-effectiveness analyses for 12 low and middle-income countries. It also serves as an additional resource for countries considering MMS in the context of implementation research.

  • Global
  • Research
  • Guidance document
WHO, WFP & UNICEF Bloem et al.

Preventing and controlling micronutrient deficiencies in populations affected by an emergency

This is a joint statement by the World Health Organization, World Food Programme and UNICEF on multiple vitamin and mineral supplements for pregnant and lactating women, and for children aged 6 to 59 months in emergency settings.

  • Global
  • Policy and policy development
  • Guidance document
World Health Organization November 2020

Global anaemia reduction efforts among women of reproductive age: impact, achievement of targets and the way forward for optimizing efforts

This review updates and shares new resources for those seeking to implement anaemia reduction efforts worldwide. The purpose of the review is to help Member States and their partners in their efforts to understand and make informed decisions on the appropriate nutrition actions needed to prevent and control anaemias. This review is directed to a wide audience, including, but not limited to policy-makers, economists and technical and programme staff in ministries and organizations involved in the design, implementation and scaling-up of nutrition actions for public health.

  • South Asia
  • Research
  • Scientific publication
Trials Taneja et al. January 2020

Impact of an integrated nutrition, health, water sanitation and hygiene, psychosocial care and support intervention package delivered during the pre- A nd peri-conception period and/or during pregnancy and early childhood on linear growth of infants in the first two years of life, birth outcomes and nutritional status of mothers: Study protocol of a factorial, individually randomized controlled trial in India

This study was conceived with an aim to understand the impact of an integrated intervention package, delivered across the pre and peri-conception period, through pregnancy, and till 24 months of child age on birth outcomes, growth, and development in children. This study will demonstrate the improvement that can be achieved when key factors known to limit child growth and development are addressed together, throughout the continuum from pre and peri-conception until early childhood. The findings will increase our scientific understanding and provide guidance to nutrition programs in low-and middle-income settings.

  • Knowledge Bytes
  • Global
  • Implementation
  • Implementation tool
Dr. Anuraj H. Shankar October 2021

Knowledge Byte 11: Open Smart Register Platform & MMS

This presentation explains how to use an Open Smart Register Platform for the implementation of multiple micronutrient supplementation.

  • Knowledge Bytes
  • Global
  • Implementation
  • Implementation tool
Dr. Stephen Kodish October 2021

Knowledge Byte 10: MMS Social Marketing Toolkit

This presentation is about a social marketing toolkit for multiple micronutrient supplementation.

  • Knowledge Bytes
  • East and Southern Africa
  • Implementation
  • Case study
Sauli Epimack John and Adam Hancy October 2021

Knowledge Byte 9: Country Experience from Tanzania

This video is about introducing multiple micronutrient supplementation in Tanzania.

  • Knowledge Bytes
  • South Asia
  • Implementation
  • Case study
Md. Toslim Uddin Khan October 2021

Knowledge Byte 8: Country Experience from Bangladesh – Market Based Approach

This video is about the market-based approach to introducing multiple micronutrient supplementation in Bangladesh.