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Guatemala City: a focus on working women and childcare
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003This paper assesses the problems that female headed household face in terms of employment and childcare in Guatemala, and examines the impact of a public daycare programme on their employment opportunities and the nutrition of their children.Findings:the number of urban women who work for an income in Guatemala increased to 28% in 1999, 20% more than at the beginning of the decade.DocumentPasteurized breastmilk as a replacement feed for babies of HIV-infected mothers
ProNUTRITION, 2003This short report offers a guide for mothers demonstrating how they can use their own milk for their babies, while simultaneously avoiding any risk of post-partum transmission of the virus to their babies through breastfeeding. The two methods shown are flash-boiling and pretoria pasteurizationDocumentAssessment and improvement of care for AIDS-affected children under age 5
ProNUTRITION, 2000Very little is known specifically about the 0-4 AIDS affected age group, since most orphan assessments treat the 0-15 (or 0-18) year age span only as a whole. Because of their nutritional, health and psycho-social needs, children under age 5 represent a group that demands special attention.DocumentSupplementation with beef or milk markedly improves vitamin B12 status of Kenya schoolers
Global Livestock CRSP, 2002This paper reports on a two year controlled intervention with animal source foods, initiated in Embu, Kenya, to improve the micronutrient status of 6-9 year old rural Kenyan school children and test if animal source foods improve growth and cognitive function as well.Twelve schools were randomly assigned to three different but equi-calorific food supplements.DocumentThe impact of dietary intervention on the cognitive development of Kenyan school children
Global Livestock CRSP, 2002This study reports the first findings of an experimental study in rural Kenya, designed to test the impact of three different diets on the cognitive development of school children.Twelve schools with 555 Standard 1 children were randomised to one of four feeding interventions: Meat, Milk, Energy, or Control (no feeding).DocumentChild malnutrition in Ethiopia: can maternal knowledge augment the role of income?
World Bank, 2003This 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.DocumentChild growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia
World Bank, 2003This 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.DocumentGhana: the Accra urban food and nutrition study
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002This 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 nutritDocumentSocial impact of the economic crisis on vulnerable children in Thailand
World Bank, 1998Aims 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.