New Global Guidance on Wasting Treatment Means Greater Opportunities to Reach More Children in Need

RUTF Inclusion in WHO Essential Medicines List: A Game Changer for Wasting Treatment

Why ECF and Gavi are joining forces to explore pairing nutritional supplement and vaccine delivery to save more lives

Collective Statement of Support for Multiple Micronutrient Supplements to Improve Maternal and Child Nutrition 

ECF Recipient of Open Philanthropy Regranting Challenge Award

$280 Million in Additional Historic Pledges Announced to Tackle Child Wasting

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ECF Sponsors Prenatal Vitamin Symposium at 9th African Nutrition Conference in Cape Coast, Ghana

Centering Child Health through Immunization and Nutrition Integration

Countries Driving Impact on Maternal Nutrition: Stories from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia

Starting Strong: Partnership Launch Event in Nepal Sets Stage for Research on Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation in Pregnancy and Lactation

Unlocking a Healthier Future: Maternal Nutrition & Increased Access to Prenatal Multivitamins

Eleanor Crook Foundation and Helen Keller Intl Join Forces with Senegal’s Ministry of Health to Combat Child Wasting

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Babies get the best start in life when they are fed only breast milk until six months old and continue breastfeeding until at least age two. Though breastfeeding is one of the best ways to protect newborns from malnutrition, infections, disease, and death, today just four out of ten babies around the world are exclusively breastfed.
With co-investment from philanthropist Sir Chris Hohn, the CRI Foundation, the Eleanor Crook Foundation, and The ELMA Relief Foundation, this monumental commitment will drive more than a 50% increase in the number of severely malnourished children who receive treatment with Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), a lifesaving, nutrient-dense, peanut-based therapeutic food.
Journalists participating in ICFJ’s Global Nutrition and Food Security Reporting Fellowship published stories on the interconnection between malnutrition and climate change, breastfeeding for migrant mothers, insect farming, RUTF recovery and relapse, and more, to shed light on the drivers and solutions to the longstanding global malnutrition crisis.