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  Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health programme for urban slum dwellers in India

  Population Council, USA, 2005

  This paper describes a pilot livelihood activities and reproductive health intervention and its impact aimed at adolescent girls aged 14-19 living in urban slums in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. The project was initiated based on the recognition of the relative disadvantage of adolescent girls and in an effort to build the evidence base for adolescent livelihoods programmes.
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  Childcare, nutrition and health in the central plateau of Haiti: the role of community, household and caregiver resources

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2003

  This report presents the main findings of a baseline survey evaluation of the integrated maternal and child health (MCH) programme being implemented by World Vision-Haiti in the Central Plateau of Haiti.
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  Newborn health policy and planning framework

  World Health Organization, 2005

  This framework, published by the World Health Organization, aims to help policy-makers and others develop strategies for improving newborn health, particularly in countries which have a high burden of mortality and illness among newborn children.
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  Enhanced bioavailability of iron from mungbeans and its effects on health of schoolchildren

  World Vegetable Center, Taiwan, 2003

  In India, total dietary intake and bioavailability of iron is low among poor households. On average, they consume only about 55% of the required iron intake per adult equivalent.
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  Maintaining momentum to 2015?: an impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh

  World Bank, 2005

  This World Bank report examines the impacts of donor-supported programmes for maternal and child health, nutrition, and fertility in Bangladesh. It reports that under-five mortality has been reduced substantially since the 1990s, but malnutrition remains high. The gap between rich and poor in child mortality is also narrowing.
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  Meeting Millennium Development Goals 3 and 5

  British Medical Journal, 2005

  This article, taken from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Africa issue, calls for gender equality to be put on the African agenda. The authors point out that of all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), we have made the least progress towards achieving MDG 5 – to improve maternal health.
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  A better future for rural girls: manager's briefing kit

  Family Care International, 2005

  This briefing kit presents the results and recommendations of participatory research conducted with rural girls, boys, their families and local leaders in three rural communities: Soula, Burkina Faso, M’Biénina, Mali, and Méouane, Senegal, to identify the challenges that rural girls face and come up with strategies to address their many needs.
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  Progress for children: a report card on immunization

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This volume of Progress for Children reports on the progress of immunisations by countries and region.The report finds that East Asia/Pacific, Latin America/Caribbean and Middle East/North Africa are almost achieving the 90 per cent target for DPT3 (national and district coverage).
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  Undernutrition in Bolivia: geography and culture matter

  2005

  Malnutrition is an acknowledged problem in Bolivia, although its complex causes are not completely understood. The aim of this paper is to identify the main determinants of child health in Bolivia.
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  Bringing them on board: putting health policy into practice in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The successful implementation of health policy requires the backing of health care practitioners, managers, and patients. In South Africa, the introduction of free health care, although supported in principal by nurses and health facility managers, faced resistance as workloads increased and staff felt excluded from a centrally prescribed policy.

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