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Preparing for national school-based deworming in Kenya: the validation and large-scale distribution of school questionnaires with urinary schistosomiasis. OBJECTIVE: School questionnaires of self-reported schistosomiasis provide a rapid and simple approach […]

Acceptability of complementary foods and breads prepared from zinc-fortified cereal flours among young children and adults in Senegal We completed a series of studies to assess the acceptability of zinc-fortified, […]

Impact monitoring of the national scale up of zinc treatment for childhood diarrhea in Bangladesh: repeat ecologic surveys. BACKGROUND: Zinc treatment of childhood diarrhea has the potential to save 400,000 under-five […]

Nepal’s vitamin A supplementation programme, 15 years on: Sustained growth in coverage and equity and children still missed. Nepal’s national vitamin A programme, that started in a few districts in […]

Development of food-based complementary feeding recommendations for 9- to 11-month-old peri-urban Indonesian infants using linear programming. Effective population-specific, food-based complementary feeding recommendations (CFR) are required to combat micronutrient deficiencies. To […]

National food-fortification program with folic acid in Chile. The Chilean Ministry of Health legislated to add folic acid (2.2 mg/100 g) to wheat flour to reduce the risk of neural […]

Coverage of the national vitamin A supplementation program in Ethiopia. Periodic vitamin A supplementation is a major intervention to reduce morbidity, mortality, and blindness among children in developing countries. The […]

Determinants of high vitamin A supplementation coverage among pre-school children in Mali: the National Nutrition Weeks experience. OBJECTIVES: To assess vitamin A supplementation (VAS) coverage of children aged 6-59 months and […]

Factors that affect the adoption and maintenance of weekly vitamin A supplementation among women in Ghana. OBJECTIVE: To identify regimen, individual, community and cultural factors that affect adoption and adherence […]

Wheat flour fortification is unlikely to benefit the neediest in Guatemala. The potential impact of wheat flour fortification with iron and folic acid was assessed using data about food purchases […]