Documents on neonate/newborn/infant listed by year of publication

Key documents

• Home visits for the newborn child: a strategy to improve survival
  WHO and UNICEF now recommend home visits in the baby’s first week of life to improve newborn survival. This Statement includes information on how to care for the newborn child at home.

• IMCI chart booklet - standard
  The IMCI training materials and chart booklet were originally developed in 1995, and are now being used in more than 100 countries around the world. This revised version includes new sections on the management of illness in the first week of a child's life.

2011

2010

• CAH progress report highlights 2009
• Countdown to 2015: taking stock of maternal, newborn & child survival
  Decade Report (2000-2010)
• Facts for life
  Fourth edition
• Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding 2010
  Principles and recommendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices
  Part II: Measurement
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices
  Part III: Country profiles
• Packages of interventions
  Family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and child health
• PMTCT strategic vision 2010–2015
  Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals
• Report of the WHO technical consultation on neonatal vitamin A supplementation research priorities
  Geneva, Switzerland, 4-5 December 2008
• WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children

2009

• Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast-milk substitutes
• CAH progress report highlights 2008
• Development of a Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP)
  Report of an informal consultation, Chavannes de Bogis, Switzerland, 25-27 February 2008
• Home visits for the newborn child: a strategy to improve survival
  WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement
• Identifying priorities for child health research to achieve millennium development goal 4
  Consultation proceedings, Geneva, 26–27 March 2009
• Infant and young child feeding - tools and materials
• Infant and young child feeding: Model Chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals
• Integrated Management of Childhood Illness computerized training tool
• Managing programmes to improve child health
  Introduction, planning implementation, managing implementation, workbook, facilitator guide
• Primary Child Care: A manual for health workers
• WHO child growth standards and the identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children
  A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund
• WHO, UNICEF, WFP and UNHCR Consultation on the Dietary Management of Moderate Malnutrition in Under-5 Children

2008

• Countdown to 2015: Tracking progress in maternal, newborn & child survival
  The 2008 report
• HIV and infant feeding counselling tools
• IMCI chart booklet - standard
• IMCI chart booklet for high HIV settings
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices
  Part I: Definition
• Introducing zinc in a diarrhoeal control programme
  Guide to conducting formative research
• Manual for the health care of children in humanitarian emergencies
• Strengthening action to improve feeding of infants and young children 6-23 months of age in nutrition and child health programmes
  Report of proceedings, Geneva, 6-9 October 2008
• The international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes
  Frequently asked questions

2007

• Evidence on the long-term effects of breastfeeding
  Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
• HIV and infant feeding: new evidence and programmatic experience
  Report of a technical consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, Mother and their Infants, Geneva, Switzerland, 25-27 October 2006
• HIV and infant feeding: Update
  Based on the Technical Consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Infants, Geneva, Switzerland, 25-27 October 2006
• HIV transmission through breastfeeding
  A review of available evidence
• Indoor air pollution from solid fuels and risk of low birth weight and stillbirth
  Report from a symposium held at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), September 2005, Johannesburg
• Planning guide for national implementation of the Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• The impact of zinc supplementation on childhood mortality and severe morbidity
  Report of a workshop to review the results of three large studies
• WHO HIV and infant feeding technical consultation - consensus statement
  Held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, mothers and their infants

2006

• Home-modified animal milk for replacement feeding: is it feasible and safe?
  Discussion paper prepared for HIV and infant feeding technical consultation, 25-27 October 2006
• Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling
  An Integrated Course
• Optimal feeding of low-birth-weight infants
  Technical review

2005

• Call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in the current Asian emergency, and caution about unnecessary use of milk products
  WHO, UNICEF, ICRC, IFRC statement
• Guiding principles for feeding non-breastfed children 6-24 months of age
• HIV and infant feeding counselling
  From research to practice
• Newborn health policy and planning framework
  Working version
• The Lancet Neonatal survival series
• Update on dissemination and use of new and revised HIV and infant feeding publications
• Urinary tract infections in infants and children in developing countries in the context of IMCI

2004

• Consultative meeting to review evidence and research priorities in the management of ARI
• HIV and infant feeding
  Guidelines for decision-makers
• HIV and infant feeding
  A guide for health-care managers and supervisors
• HIV and infant feeding data analysis
  Workshop report
• HIV and infant feeding generic slide set
• UNICEF and WHO joint statement on HIV and infant feeding
• What are the options?
  Using formative research to adapt global recommendations on HIV and infant feeding to the local context

2003

• Community-based strategies for breastfeeding promotion and support in developing countries
• Complementary feeding
  Report of the global consultation, and summary of guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Discussion paper 146: moving forward with complementary feeding
  Indicators and research priorities
• Explore simplified antimicrobial regimens for the treatment of neonatal sepsis
  Meeting report, Geneva, 30th September – 1st October 2002
• Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• HIV and infant feeding
  Framework for priority action
• Implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
  Geneva, 3-5 February 2003 : Meeting report
• Infant and young child feeding
  A tool for assessing national practices, policies and programmes
• Special supplement of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin based on a WHO expert consultation on complementary feeding

2002

• Nutrient adequacy of exclusive breastfeeding for the term infant during the first six months of life
• Report of informal technical meeting to review and develop indicators for complementary feeding
  3-5 December 2002, Washington, D.C.

2001

• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding
  Report of an expert consultation
• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding
  A systematic review

2000

1990-1999