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  Gender matters: overcoming gender-related barriers to prevent new HIV infections among children and keep their mothers alive

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2016

  Studies indicate that harmful gender norms and practices, cultural perceptions and beliefs surrounding pregnancy and childbirth, and a distrust of health-care services all can pose barriers to HIV prevention and treatment. In particular, women face difficulties related to unequal gender power relations and stigma.
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  Non-profit food distribution: working with businesses to reduce undernutrition in Nigeria

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  In Nigeria, undernutrition is causing vast social and economic damage. To address this, poor people must have better access to a diet rich in essential nutrients. Markets are a key source of food for a growing proportion of poor people, but a number of constraints prevent businesses from providing nutrition-rich foods that reach the poorest communities.
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  Team of researchers from Bayero University Kano receives grant to compare feeding practices of mothers of stunted and non-stunted children

  Operational Research and Impact Evaluation, 2015

  In March 2015, a team in the Department of Community Medicine of Bayero University Kano led by Professor Zubairu Iliyasu received a research grant for a new research project to compare the feeding practices of mothers with stunted and non-stunted children.
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  Education for pregnant girls and young mothers

  Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2015

  This helpdesk report responses to the questions 'how do Kenya, Nigeria and the UK deal with girls who get pregnant at school?' 
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  ORIE Nigeria Gender Synthesis Report: Gender-related findings across ORIE studies (Year Three)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  Gender inequality and child mortality, morbidity and malnutrition are inextricably linked. Data collected in ORIE’s research and evaluation studies throw light on the links between the low status and autonomy of women, low uptake of nutrition services, and poor child health outcomes, in four states of Northern Nigeria.
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  HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, discrimination, and service accessibility among Africa’s youth: insights from a multi-country study

  Population Council, USA, 2015

  At the individual level, youth lack access to appropriate SRH [sexual and reproductive health] information and confidential, low-cost, and stigma-free SRH services.
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  Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunisation in Northern Nigeria – Maternal Newborn and Child Health Initiative, PRRINN - MNCH: project completion review

  Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2015

  The Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunisation in Northern Nigeria and Maternal Newborn and Child Health Initiative (PRRINN-MNCH), is a maternal, newborn and child health programme implemented in four States in Northern Nigeria (Jigawa, Yobe, Katsina and Zamfara).
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  Prevalence of and risk factors for stunting among school children and adolescents in Abeokuta, southwest Nigeria

  Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011

  Stunting adversely affects the physical and mental outcome of children. The objectives of the study are to determine the prevalence of and risk factors associated with stunting among urban school children and adolescents in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Five hundred and seventy children aged 5-19 years were selected using the multi-stage random-sampling technique.
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  A systematic assessment of the current capacity to act in nutrition in West Africa: cross-country similarities and differences

  2014

  Although it is widely accepted that lack of capacity is one of the barriers to scaling up nutrition in West Africa, there is a paucity of information about what capacities exist and the capacities that need to be developed to accelerate progress toward improved nutrition outcomes in the region.
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  Our bodies, their battle ground. Boko Haram and gender-based violence against Christian women and children in North-Eastern Nigeria since 1999

  2013

  Over the years, gender-based violence (GBV) in Nigeria has been primarily examined from cultural, traditional and socio-economic perspectives, neglecting political-religious related insurgency like that of Boko Haram.

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