NNI Africa Publications

Worldwide, fewer than one-third of children aged 6–24 months receive adequate dietary diversity and only about half receive a sufficient number of meals each day.

Around the 1930’s, scientists discovered that the type of lactose found in human breastmilk contains a carbohydrate fraction, which they were able to characterise as the bifidogenic factor consisting of oligosaccharides.

The agenda of this NNI workshop included findings on feeding practices. They include three sessions: Global Epidemiology, Catch up Growth, and Feeding Practices in the context of low birth weight infants and small for gestational age infants.