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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Key scientific articles on evidence related to MMS.
MMS during pregnancy – Cochrane Review 2019
IPD Analysis on benefits of MMS – 2017
Maternal and Child Undernutrition Progress – The Lancet Series
Top policy briefs and guides for advocating for maternal nutrition and MMS.
FAQ and Advocacy Brief on MMS in WHO’s EML
Useful tools for introducing MMS in countries.
Interim Country-level Decision-making Guidance for Introducing MMS
Formative Research in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Madagascar.
This Coffee and Chai Chat with Dr. Megan Bourassa is on the Evidence on Adherence to MMS.
This Coffee and Chai Chat with Dr. Mulamba Diese is on increasing access to multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This Coffee and Chai Chat with Dr. Hema Divakar & Dr. Saskia Osendarp is on the role of nutrition in maternal health.
This Coffee and Chai Chat with Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta is on the Evidence for Transitioning from IFA to MMS.
This Coffee and Chai Chat with Kalpana Beesabathuni is on the Supply Readiness Assessment Tool for MMS by Sight and Life.
This White Paper on Nutrition Improvement Solutions by DSM explains how micronutrient supplements can reduce nutritional anemia during pregnancy and improve birth outcomes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
