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  Child malnutrition, social development and health services in the Andean region: second progress report

  Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 2004

  The authors suggest that child malnutrition severely jeopardises, reduces or impairs prospects for productive social participation in adulthood. The authors propose that it is a major hindrance to human development (defined as a process of enhancing human capabilities).
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  Operational guidelines for supporting ECD

  World Bank, 2004

  These guidelines, published by the World Bank, provide direction on how to incorporate early childhood development (ECD) activities into HIV/AIDS programmes, focusing on African countries with both low and high HIV prevalence.
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  The development, implementation and evaluation of interventions for the care of orphans and vulnerable children in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe: a literature review of evidence-based interventions for home-based child-centred development

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2004

  There is widespread recognition of the urgency of addressing the problem of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, and a number of programmes have been implemented towards this end.
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  Emphasis behaviors in maternal and child health: focusing on caretaker behaviors to develop maternal and child health programs in communities

  World Health Organization, 2004

  Published by Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (Basics II), this article examines the behaviour of child caretakers, in particular its impact on infant and child morbidity and mortality. The article begins by setting out the "Pathway to Survival" framework, designed to assist with the development and monitoring of integrated child health programmes.
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  Community effectiveness of chloroquine and traditional remedies in the treatment of young children with falciparum malaria in rural Burkina Faso

  Malaria Journal, BioMed Central, 2004

  This article, published in Malaria Journal, examines the effectiveness of both modern and traditional methods of malaria treatment in rural Burkina Faso. Findings showed that 87 per cent of the observed malaria episodes were treated with the antimalarial drug chloroquine and 13 per cent with traditional remedies.
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  The importance of caregiver-child interactions for the survival and healthy development of young children: a review

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This World Health Organization paper reviews current evidence on the importance of caregiver-child relationships for the survival and healthy development of children from birth to three years of age. It notes that a range of factors affects this relationship, including socio-economic issues and the caregiver’s psychological health.
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  Progress since the world summit for children: a statistical review

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2001

  This report, produced by UNICEF, presents the results of the largest-ever effort to survey, extract, measure and analyse information on progress toward meeting goals set at the World Summit for Children.
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  Factors associated with trends in infant and child mortality in developing countries during the 1990s

  World Health Organization, 2000

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, uses data from the Demographic and Health Survey programme (DHS) to examine factors influencing trends in infant and child mortality in developing countries during the 1990s. While infant and child mortality rates have declined in most developing countries, some have experienced a reversal or slowing of earlier declines.
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  Malnutrition as an underlying cause of childhood deaths associated with infectious diseases in developing countries

  World Health Organization, 2000

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, presents the findings of a literature review, which examined evidence of a link between malnutrition and child mortality from diarrhoea, acute respiratory illness, malaria and measles.
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  The evolution of child health programmes in developing countries: from targeting diseases to targeting people

  World Health Organization, 2000

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, looks at the origins of current child health programmes, the causes behind the apparent slowing of progress in child health in many parts of the world, and ways in which child health programmes must change.

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