RUTF STUFF

Commentary. Ready-to-use therapeutic food
RUTF stuff. Can the children be saved with fortified peanut paste?

• The IBFAN Statement on the Promotion and Use of Commercial Fortified Foods as Solutions for Child Malnutrition is now available in 4 languages. Please click on the link below to view the statement.
  English  | Italian | Spanish | Arabic | Vietnamesse
  
• The authors conclude:
  "We do not question the use of RUTF to treat severe acute malnutrition, under qualified health professional supervision. Our concern is the extension of its use in communities, rather than in health facilities, and for prevention, rather than the treatment of malnutrition. Using an expensive, currently usually imported, commercial product, as the main food to prevent malnutrition, is undesirable and unsustainable. For full paper. Click here.
  
• USAID'S Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project : The Case for Preventing Malnutrition Through Improved Infant Feeding and Management of Childhood Illness
  
• Accompanying Editorial The global game plan of Big Snack
  
• Letter from Darfur RUTF is not the answer in Darfur    
    
• Parliament of India answers questions on RUTF     
  
• What Ministry of Health GOI has to say about RUTF, 13 May, 2010
  
• What Jeffery Sachs has to say about RUTF
  

ABUSE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM

The Indian media has this week exposed a secret deal between Nestle and universities to target young girls of government run schools in rural areas . When a request for information on the deal under India's Right to Information law was sought , it was blocked by Nestle.

• You're paying food giants to ‘ educate' you on nutrition
  Mail Today, by Dinesh C.Sharma
  FOOD giants are surreptitiously using the public- funded education system to promote commercial brands and encourage consumption of unhealthy foods in the name of ‘ nutrition education', a group of health experts has warned.more >>
  
• MNC IN SECRET PACT WITH UNIVERSITIES FOR FOOD EDUCATION
  The India media has this week exposed a secret deal between Nestlé and universities to target young girls with information on nutrition - a request for information on the deal under India's Right to Information law was blocked by Nestlé more >>
  
• Treading The Fine Line
  Nestle's awareness programme runs too close to marketing
  It pays to keep away from private-public partnerships, especially if you plan to 'only' create awareness on a topic that complements the business you are in. Last week, foods giant Nestle was probably chewing hard on this thought. more>>

One Asia Breastfeeding Partners Forum – 8
Ulaanbaatar , Mongolia on 14-16 Sept., 2011
Theme : “Climate Change and Food Security”

ULAANBAATAR DECLARATION
on Breastfeeding and Infant and Young Child Feeding
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