LINKAGES worked at country, regional, and global levels to help organizations put new emphasis on breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and maternal nutrition and to support initiatives such as the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) of family planning and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. LINKAGES shared technical information through publications, technical guidelines, articles on its applied research, mass media, job aids, training, policy workshops, and presentations at technical consultations and conferences. Use the following links for a description of each of LINKAGES technical intitatives and publications on the topics: Breastfeeding, Complementary Feeding, Maternal Nutrition, Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) and Infant Feeding and HIV.

The major goals of LINKAGES' technical initiatives were to:

• Inform decision makers about the social, human, and economic costs of sub-optimal breastfeeding and promote appropriate policy and program responses
• Promote scientifically based guidelines on complementary feeding
• Raise awareness of the magnitude and impact of maternal malnutrition and women's special nutritional needs during pregnancy and lactation
• Increase recognition and acceptance of LAM as an effective, modern method of contraception by providing scientific and programmatic evidence to policy makers, program planners, and family planning service providers
• Interpret and disseminate scientific knowledge on infant feeding and HIV

• Breastfeeding
• Complementary Feeding
• Infant Feeding and HIV
• Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM)
• Maternal Nutrition