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Examination of facilitators and barriers to home-based supplemental feeding with ready-to-use food for underweight children in western Uganda. Poor complementary feeding practices and low-quality complementary foods are significant causes of […]
Article Link- 19th July 2010
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Formative research exploring acceptability, utilization, and promotion in order to develop a micronutrient powder (Sprinkles) intervention among Luo families in western Kenya. BACKGROUND: There is a lack of peer-reviewed literature describing […]
Article Link- 1st June 2010
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Moving from vertical to integrated child health programmes: experiences from a multi-country assessment of the Child Health Days approach in Africa. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effect of child health days (CHDs) […]
Article Link- 1st March 2010
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Operational issues and trends associated with the pilot introduction of zinc for childhood diarrhoea in Bougouni district, Mali. Zinc for the treatment of childhood diarrhoea was introduced in a pilot […]
Article Link- 1st June 2008
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Mainstreaming nutrition into maternal and child health programmes: scaling up of exclusive breastfeeding. Interventions to promote exclusive breastfeeding have been estimated to have the potential to prevent 13% of all […]
Article Link- 1st April 2008
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What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival. We reviewed interventions that affect maternal and child undernutrition and nutrition-related outcomes. These interventions included promotion of breastfeeding; strategies to […]
Article Link- 1st January 2008
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Breastfeeding and mixed feeding practices in Malawi: timing, reasons, decision makers, and child health consequences. BACKGROUND: In order to effectively promote exclusive breastfeeding, it is important to first understand who […]
Article Link- 1st March 2007
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Senegalese grandmothers promote improved maternal and child nutrition practices: the guardians of tradition are not averse to change. The vast majority of community nutrition/health programs in developing countries focus on […]
Article Link- 1st September 2004
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The Costa Rican experience: reduction of neural tube defects following food fortification programs. Fortification of wheat flour in 1997 and corn flour in 1999 with folic acid among other micronutrients […]
Article Link- 1st June 2004
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Promotion and advocacy for improved complementary feeding: can we apply the lessons learned from breastfeeding? Although many successes have been achieved in promoting breastfeeding, this has not been the case […]
Article Link- 1st January 2003