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  USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity Literature Review

  This literature review focuses on the facilitators of and barriers to priority behaviors for the USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity.
• Project

  USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity

  The USAID Healthy Behaviors Activity seeks to increase sustained adoption of healthy behaviors in Ethiopia using evidence-based, theory-informed social and behavior change strategies.
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  It takes a village: An empirical analysis of how husbands, mothers‐in‐law, health workers, and mothers influence breastfeeding practices in Uttar Pradesh, India
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  Using behavior change approaches to improve complementary feeding practices

  Improving complementary feeding of children 6 to 24 months of age requires an understanding of what drives feeding behaviors in specific cultural and economic contexts and which systematic approaches best facilitate beneficial and feasible changes. This paper analyzes social and behavior change approaches and use of program delivery platforms at scale that resulted in documented improvements in Bangladesh, Malawi, Peru and Zambia. The authors conclude that complementary feeding practices, particularly dietary diversity, can be improved rapidly in a variety of settings through available program platforms if interventions focus on specific constraints and strategies encourage caregivers to prepare and feed appropriate foods.