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  Management of severe malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers

  World Health Organization, 1999

  This manual from the World Health Organization provides guidelines for the treatment and management of severe malnutrition, intended for use by healthcare staff at both central and district level, including physicians, nurses, midwives and auxiliaries.
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  Should we provide a guarantee that no child will be brain-damaged by malnutrition in Africa if money can prevent it?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that no child should be subject to brain-damage caused by malnutrition if more money can prevent it.
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  The use of operations research as a tool for monitoring and managing food-assisted maternal/child health and nutrition (MHCN) programs: an example from Haiti

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This report documents research undertaken to assess the effectiveness of World Vision’s (WV) food assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) programme in the Central Plateau region of Haiti.
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  One in two: children are the key to Africa’s future

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report makes the case for investment in children as the key to breaking Africa’s cycle of poverty.
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  Why is child malnutrition lower in urban than rural areas?: evidence from 36 developing countries

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This study from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) examines the socio-economic determinants influencing child malnutrition in both urban and rural areas, using demographic and health survey data from 36 developing countries. The determinants examined are women’s education, women’s status, access to safe water and sanitation, and household economic status.
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  Gender and intrahousehold food allocation in southern Ethiopia

  Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University, Israel, 2004

  This paper examines the patterns of food allocation within Ethiopian households, with a particular focus on gender differences and the sources of these differences.
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  Infant feeding options

  LINKAGES Project, 2004

  The risks of HIV transmission to an infant through breastfeeding are high, with policy makers and health care providers struggling to develop appropriate guidance on infant feeding for HIV-positive women.This paper discusses the latest issues in infant feeding options, with the main points including:infants can acquire HIV infection from their mothers during pregnancy, labour and deliv
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  Using Essential Nutrition Actions to accelerate coverage with nutrition interventions in high mortality settings

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004

  This paper examines the potentials of the ENA approach, which attempts to expand the coverage of six proven nutrition interventions by building on countries' existing nutrition work and, using delivery channels within and outside formal health structures, linking nutrition with health services and community based organisations.The six interventions of ENA are: exclusive breastfeeding (E
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  Childhood poverty in Rajasthan: a review of literature

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper reviews the literature on childhood poverty in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Designed to inform future primary research in the state, it examines the effects of poverty on children, analyses the relationship between livelihoods and childhood poverty and wellbeing, and identifies some of the mechanisms by which poverty is transferred across generations.
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  Undernutrition as an underlying cause of malaria, morbidity and mortality

  Disease Control Priorities Project, Maryland, 2003

  This review examines the global burden of malaria associated with various nutrient deficiencies as well as underweight status and determines that, although the association is complex and requires additional research, improved nutritional status lessens the severity of malaria episodes and results in fewer deaths due to malaria.The review finds that evidence strongly suggests that micronutrient

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