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  Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)

  ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research is an international health research institution located in Bangladesh.
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  Making the links: addressing HIV/AIDS and gender equality in food security and rural livelihoods programming

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2005

  This toolkit from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) provides guidelines for integrating HIV and gender equality into the development and implementation of agricultural and food security programmes. The guidelines highlight the ways in which food security, gender, poverty and HIV intersect.
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  Meeting the challenge to improve complementary feeding

  United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2003

  This issue focuses on the importance of complementary feeding in childhood and its role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It offers an up-to-date and multi-disciplinary overview on the challenges and benefits of complementary feeding. It also highlights recent actions for its improvement.
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  Vitamin and mineral deficiency: a global damage assessment report

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2007

  The Micronutrient Initiative and UNICEF are issuing a global progress report on vitamin and mineral deficiency, along with damage assessment reports for 80 individual countries.
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  Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality: some inter-regional puzzles and their implications for research and policy

  European Development Research Network, 2006

  This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries.The research finds that while there is a close relationship between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes.
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  Joint review of the maternal and child survival strategy in China

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2006

  This UNICEF report reviews maternal and child health (MCH) strategies in China. It analyses the factors that affect maternal and child mortality, recent trends and the impact of health related interventions on mortality rates. The report finds that between 1996 and 2004 there was a significant reduction in maternal mortality, child mortality and malnutrition.
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  Entitlement failure from a food quality perspective: the life and death role of vitamins and minerals in humanitarian crises

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006

  If death from crisis-related famines is typically the result of individuals’ ability to purchase available food, as Amartya Sen and others have frequently argued, solutions should address incomes and markets to enable populations to acquire the food they need.
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  Household and community socioeconomic and environmental determinants of child nutritional status in Cameroon

  BMC Public Health, 2006

  This article, published in BMC Public Health, examines the household and community level social, economic and environmental factors that influence nutritional status among children under three years old in Cameroon, and assesses the changes in the effects of these factors during the 1990s economic crisis.
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  Modeling the effects of different infant feeding strategies on infant survival and mother-to-child transmission of HIV

  American Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This article, published by the American Journal of Public Health, investigates how the risk of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV through breastfeeding compares with the risk of death from artificial feeding.
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  Efficacy and effectiveness of community-based treatment of severe malnutrition

  United Nations University, 2006

  This article, in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin of the United Nations University, questions whether community based rehabilitation for treatment of severe malnutrition is effective and whether it should be advised for routine health systems.

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