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.
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• 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. 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', .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 more >>
  
• Treading The Fine Line
  Nestle's awareness programme runs too close to marketing . more>>

PM's Council on India's Nutrition Challenges Meets 24 November 2010

1. Minutes of the Meeting
2. Letter to Prime minister of India
3. Note for Hon'ble Prime Minister for consideration
4. PM Says the Malnutrition Problem must be Tackled Urgently
   Prime Minister's Office , 26 November 2010
5. News:
   1. Malnutrition is the most urgent problem: Dr Manmohan Singh
      fnbnews,27 November 2010
   2. PM's nutrition panel puts focus on 200 poorest districts
      Times of India, 26 November 2010
   3. Restructure dysfunctional nutrition programmes: PM
      Press Trust Of India / New Delhi November 26, 2010, 0:38 IST
   4. PM says malnutrition problem must be tackled urgently
      NetIndian News Network New Delhi, November 25, 2010
   5. Malnutrition alarm bell wakes up PMO
      Mail Today E-Paper,November 23, 2010

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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