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  Immunisation and child health materials development guide

  Children’s Vaccine Program, PATH, 2001

  This Guide is a reference and educational tool for people who create communication materials for child health and immunisation. It explores qualitative research and pre-testing in depth in areas where our colleagues have asked for additional help.
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  Child malnutrition in Ethiopia: can maternal knowledge augment the role of income?

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper reports on a study that explores the complementary role of nutritional knowledge using mothers' capability to correctly assess their children's nutritional status as a proxy for a community's nutritional knowledge.The study focuses on Ethiopia, a country which registers one of the highest child malnutrition rates in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Child growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper reports on a study which addresses the challenges of child stunting in Ethiopia. At present, the report notes that stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at around 60 percent since the early 1980s and is among the highest in the world.
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  Ghana: the Accra urban food and nutrition study

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on an IFPRI analysis of urban food and nutrition security in Accra, conducted with the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana and the WHO.The main goal of the research project was to determine how the strategies employed by the urban poor to secure their livelihoods affect households’ food security, the care of children, and their resulting health and nutrit
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  Predicting the social consequences of orphanhood in South Africa

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2003

  This paper examines and questions the predictions found in the academic and policy literature of social breakdown in Southern Africa in the wake of anticipated high rates of orphanhood caused by the AIDS epidemic.Analysis of the logic underlying these predictions reveals four causal relationships necessary to fulfil such dramatic and apocalyptic predictions:high AIDS mortality rates wil
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  Children's participation in HIV/AIDS programming

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2002

  This short article considers why children's participation is important in HIV/AIDS programming, the challenges that come with it and how it works in practice.The article argues that participation in decision making is inherent to children's rights but also that it is important for successful HIV/AIDS programming.
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  Children's environmental health: risks and remedies

  Population Reference Bureau, 2002

  This policy brief (part of PRB’s Emerging Policy Issues in Population, Health, and Environment series) explores children’s special vulnerability to environmental hazards such as smoke from traditional fuels and from emerging risks such as exposure to an increasing number of hazardous chemicals.
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  Social impact of the economic crisis on vulnerable children in Thailand

  World Bank, 1998

  Aims to assess the key social impacts of the economic crisis in Thailand and its possible implications for children and their families in Thailand and neighbouring countries.Impacts of the economic crisis on Thailand include: unemployment rapidly rose in rural areas.
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  Facts for life

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  This report contains information on safe motherhood, early childhood development, nutrition, HIV/AIDS and other major causes of childhood illnesses and death.
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  The situation of children in Iraq

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  This report describes the political and socio-economic context of Iraq, the causes of increased infant mortality since the end of the 1980s, and the efforts made by UNICEF to improve child and maternal nutrition, health and sanitation.

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