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Enhanced Homestead Food Production Plus+ Program in the Lake Zone, Tanzania

NCT02259166 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2325

Last updated 2016-09-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess if the Enhanced Homestead Food Production Plus (EHFP+) Program implemented by HKI in Mwanza, Tanzania, enhances uptake of Micronutrient Powder (MNP) supplementation in children, helps maintaining reduced anemia levels among children after a blanket provision of MNP, and has an impact on child growth, infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, maternal knowledge related to health, nutrition, WASH and malaria prevention, food security and women's empowerment.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

EHFP+

Enhanced-homestead food production program including home gardening and poultry rearing + WASH interventions + SBCC around the essential nutrition actions and WASH/malaria prevention with a gender component.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Helen Keller International

    collaborator OTHER

  • Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, Canada

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • International Food Policy Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rahul Rawat, PhD · International Food Policy Research Institute

  • Erin Smith · Helen Keller International

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
12 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-06-30
Primary Completion
2016-03-31
Completion
2016-03-31

Countries

  • Tanzania

Study Locations

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Diseases

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