This paper presents findings from the first study that looked at the efficacy of iron fortified rice. It used an expensive form of iron and later work showed that a cheaper form also works. Nevertheless, the impact here was substantial and, given how important rice is as a global staple food, efforts to fortify rice definitely deserve more attention.

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Photograph by Hernando Flores.

This article in the World Journal of Pediatrics is based on a masters thesis that Dr. Jiang Jing Xiang did with me as her supervisor at Uppsala University. It uses data from the first national vitamin A deficiency survey done several years earlier throughout China.

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Photo from Erika Andresen’s (formerly Bergström) thesis. 

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This is a power point presentation I gave in Dubai at the 1st Regional Conference on Human Lactation:
Breastfeeding for Healthier Generations. HIV and infant feeding policy making has come far in the past few years, but as of mid 2008, there is still a lot of confusion about when an HIV+ mother who is breastfeeding should stop. More importantly, how should the decision as to whether it is acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe (AFASS) to stop be taken?

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This is a presentation I gave at the First Regional Conference on Human Lactation, Breastfeeding for Healthier Generations on November 14, 2007, Dubai.

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This is another paper Jiang Jing Xiang wrote for her PhD at Uppsala Medical School in Sweden.

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Prepared for the Australian Breastfeeding
Association HOTMILK meeting

I work with nutrition in developing countries, and breastfeeding has always been a major component of my work.

I lived in Sweden for 20 years. My sons were exclusively breastfed for close to 6 months and continued breastfeeding until they were 3.5 years old. When the boys got old enough to understand language, their mother asked them to wait until they were in private-to avoid provoking people, for her and the childrenés sake. We practiced attachment parenting, including a family bed for many years.

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This paper is one of several that compose the PhD research done by Vincent Assey, a very dedicated Tanzanian scientist working at the Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre.

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Photo by Vincent Assey.

This was a comment I was requested to write by The Lancet medical journal.

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