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  Tamil Nadu’s midday meal scheme where assumed benefits score over hard data

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper examines Tamil Nadu's noon nutritious meal scheme, India's largest in terms of the number of beneficiaries covered.
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  Using Essential Nutrition Actions to accelerate coverage with nutrition interventions in high mortality settings

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004

  This paper examines the potentials of the ENA approach, which attempts to expand the coverage of six proven nutrition interventions by building on countries' existing nutrition work and, using delivery channels within and outside formal health structures, linking nutrition with health services and community based organisations.The six interventions of ENA are: exclusive breastfeeding (E
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  Future forsaken: abuses against children affected by HIV/AIDS in India

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This Human Rights Watch report documents discrimination against HIV/AIDS affected children and highlights the failure of the Indian government to protect such children from abuses. The report finds that widespread discrimination in education, health and care is increasingly pushing children affected by HIV/AIDS onto the streets and into the worst forms of child labour.
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  Childhood poverty in Rajasthan: a review of literature

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper reviews the literature on childhood poverty in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Designed to inform future primary research in the state, it examines the effects of poverty on children, analyses the relationship between livelihoods and childhood poverty and wellbeing, and identifies some of the mechanisms by which poverty is transferred across generations.
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  The role of education in promoting young people’s sexual and reproductive health

  Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002

  This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as the possible changes needed to enable the education system to respond more adequately.
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  Moving forward: a report on pioneering responses to children affected by HIV/AIDS in Andhra Pradesh, India

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2004

  The impact of HIV/AIDS has not begun to emerge fully in India, and AIDS-related orphaning is not yet occurring on a large scale. Yet, it is believed that India possibly has the largest number of AIDS orphans in the world.
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  Adolescent and youth reproductive health in the Asia and Near East Region: status, issues, policies, and programs

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004

  This paper presents the findings of a series of assessments of adolescent and youth reproductive health conducted by the Policy Project in 13 countries in the Asia and Near East (ANE) region.
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  Infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh: analysing changes over time and between States

  Young Lives, 2003

  This paper examines the determinants of infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala and the factors explaining their differential performance.It concludes that raising service levels across India toward the levels found in Kerala is a necessary step toward meeting the MDGs, and that the success of these efforts is reinforced by female empowerment.
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  Reducing child mortality in India: keeping up the pace

  World Bank, 1999

  This study asks: Is the apparent stagnation in India’s child mortality rate real or simply due to irregularities in the data? If the stagnation is taking place, what factors are behind it?
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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Andhra Pradesh, India

  Young Lives, 2003

  Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.

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