Altrena Mukuria‐Ashe

Biographic Data

ID7985902
NAMEAltrena Mukuria‐Ashe
GIVEN NAMESAltrena
FAMILY NAMEMukuria‐Ashe
SIGNATUREASHE A M
AFFILIATIONSSave the Children
ORCID0000-0001-6232-3698
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Health professional competency building for the Baby‐Friendly Hospital Initiative in Malawi

    Open AccessAltrena Mukuria‐Ashe, Kanji Nyambo et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Health professional competency building is one of nine national responsibilities (to achieve universal coverage and sustainability) described in the 2018 World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) implementation guidance for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI). With stagnating rates of exclusive breastfeeding worldwide, skilled breastfeeding support as a standard of newborn care is critical to the establishme…

  • Building the competency of health professionals in the Kyrgyz Republic for the Baby‐Friendly Hospital Initiative

    Open AccessAlyssa Klein, Charlotte Block et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2023

    Health professional competency building is one of nine national responsibilities (to achieve universal coverage and sustainability) described in the 2018 World Health Organization/UNICEF implementation guidance for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI). Skilled breastfeeding support as a standard of newborn care is critical to the establishment of lactation and exclusive breastfeeding. This qualitative case study describes the Kyrgyz Repub…

  • Exclusive breastfeeding

    Open AccessSilvia Alayon, Veronica Varela et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) recommend exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months of life. To estimate the proportion of infants that are exclusively breastfed, many agencies use the point prevalence of EBF among infants currently 0-5.9 months of age, as recommended by WHO and UNICEF. This measure tends to overestimate the percentage of infants that are exclusively breastfed for the ent…

  • Implementing two national responsibilities of the revised Unicef/WHO Baby‐Friendly Hospital Initiative

    Open AccessAltrena Mukuria‐Ashe, Alyssa Klein et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    The 2018 implementation guidance for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) recommends institutionalising the ten Steps through nine national responsibilities for universal coverage and sustainability. As countries adapt BFHI programmes to this paradigm shift away from traditional designation programmes, documenting and sharing policy and programme experience are critical and currently sparse. This qualitative case study included desk revie…

  • Fathers and grandmothers experiences participating in nutrition peer dialogue groups in Vihiga County, Kenya

    Open AccessFaith Thuita, Altrena Mukuria et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Grandmothers and fathers are key influencers of maternal and child nutrition and are increasingly included in interventions. Yet, there is limited research exploring their experiences participating in interventions. This study reports on findings from a qualitative process evaluation of a quasi-experimental study that we conducted with grandmother and father peer dialogue groups to support maternal, infant and young child feeding practices in wes…