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  Complementary Food Hygiene: An overlooked opportunity in the WASH, nutrition and health sectors

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2015

  Poor complementary food hygiene may account for a substantial proportion of diarrhoeal diseases among infants and young children in developing countries, which in turn, account for a large proportion of the global burden of infectious disease. However, most of the information on food hygiene in low income countries derives from expert opinion and
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  Helpdesk Report: Salt intake

  Department for International Development, UK, 2011

  There is mixed evidence of the extent of the problem of high salt intake in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Different reports and different unit measurements make it hard to compare and assess data. Data suggests:
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  Impact Evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh, Phase II

  Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014

  The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in Bangladesh.
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  Impact evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh, Phase I: executive summary

  2014

  The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in Bangladesh.
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  Helpdesk Report: Nutrition interventions in developing and fragile contexts with a focus on community interventions and Yemen

  Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014

  This helpdesk query report identifies evidence on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of different interventions to impact malnutrition, with a focus on: Prevention:
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  Planning and costing to accelerate actions for scaling up nutrition

  Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014

  The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement was launched in 2010 to reinvigorate efforts to address undernutrition globally.
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  Promoting equity through integrated early child development and nutrition interventions

  Wiley Online Library, 2014

  Sustainable development, a foundation of the post-2015 global agenda, depends on healthy and productive citizens. The origins of adult health begin early in life, stemming from genetic–environmental interactions that include adequate nutrition and opportunities for responsive learning.
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  Baluchistan Province report: nutrition political economy, Pakistan

  Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014

  In the Baluchistan Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Fifty-two per cent of children have stunted growth, 73.5% of children and 60.7% of pregnant women have vitamin A deficiency.
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  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province report: nutrition political economy, Pakistan

  Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014

  In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Forty-eight per cent of children have stunted growth 68.5% of children and 76.2% of pregnant women have vitamin A deficiency.
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  Punjab Province report: nutrition political economy, Pakistan

  Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014

  In the Punjab Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Although Punjab as a whole has marginally less under-nutrition than other provinces, there are large disparities within the province.

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