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  Finding a curriculum that works under trees: Literacy and health education for adolescent girls in rural Malawi

  Development in Practice, 2007

  Non-formal education often represents a last chance for adolescent girls who do not attend school to receive some education to improve their health before they become mothers. This paper describes the development of a literacy and health education curriculum for adolescent girls in southern Malawi who will never enter formal schooling.
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  The Extent and Nature of Witchcraft-Based Violence against Children, Women, and the Elderly in Malawi

  2012

  According to the study, the belief in witchcraft is strong, widespread and permeates all sectors in Malawi. Accusations of witchcraft are common and the vulnerable are most often the victims of such accusations and subsequent violence. Elderly women are at most risk of being accused of witchcraft. The means by which witches are identified are questionable.
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  Is School Education Breaking the Cycle of Poverty for Children: Factors Shaping Education Inequalities in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam

  Young Lives, 2012

  School education is held up as an ‘escape route from poverty’. Millions of poor children and families are buying into this promise and often investing scarce resources in going to school, in the hope that it will lead to a better life.
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  Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV within HIV proposals funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

  Journal of Women's Health Care, 2012

  This article aims to to analyse interventions for the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV (PMTCT) included in HIV proposals approved for funding by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund).PMTCT interventions are guided by a comprehensive strategic approach, which includes four components:
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  Malnutrition in South-Asia. Poverty, diet or lack of female empowerment?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2012

  Despite economic growth, and a reduction in poverty, malnutrition is still rampant in South-Asia. This indicates that non-economic factors are important, and we use a nation-wide survey from Nepal to identify factors that may explain why small children are stunted.
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  What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival

  The Lancet, 2008

  The authors of this article reviewed interventions that affect maternal and child undernutrition and nutrition-related outcomes, including: promotion of breastfeeding; strategies to promote complementary feeding, with or without provision of food supplements; micronutrient interventions; general supportive strategies to improve family and community nutrition; and reduction of disease burden (promo
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  Extending the duration of exclusive breastfeeding in El Alto, Bolivia through a community-based approach and the provision of health services

  Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative, 2009

  This document reports on a project to extend the duration of exclusive breastfeeding in a community in Bolivia. In 2003-2005, the NGO COTALMA initiated a project to improve parameters associated with exclusive breastfeeding in the Bolivian town of El Alto, adjacent to La Paz.
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  Progress for children: a report card on adolescents

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2012

  As children up to the age of 18, most adolescents are protected under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet, their vulnerabilities and needs often remain unaddressed.
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  Needs, challenges and opportunities: adolescents and young people living with HIV in Zambia

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2011

  The aims of this qualitative study, carried out in 2010, were twofold. The first was to explore and document the psychosocial, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of adolescents (10-19) living with HIV in Zambia.
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  Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries: effects and solutions

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2012

  Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or merely symptomatic of deeper, ingrained disadvantage.

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