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    Empowering women and girls to improve nutrition: building a sisterhood of success

    Scaling Up Nutrition, 2016
    As evidence has long suggested, gender inequality can be a cause as well as an effect of hunger and malnutrition.
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    Perceptions of Malawian nurses about nursing interventions for malnourished children and their parents

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011
    In developing countries, malnutrition among children is a major public-health issue. The aim of the study is to describe perceptions of Malawian nurses about nursing interventions for malnourished children and their parents. A qualitative method was used. Data were collected and analysed according to the phenomenographic research approach.
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    The Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI 2012)

    Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index, 2013
    The 2012 HANCI report finds that low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are failing some of their most vulnerable citizens. Key findings include:
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    Children Malnutrition and Horizontal Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa:A Focus on Contrasting Domestic Trajectories

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    The positive trend observed in recent accelerated economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries represents a huge opportunity to foster sustainable development, This paper contributes to the literature by providing a more accurate and nuanced view on the progress made with regards to child malnutrition and inequalities across sub-saharan Africa.
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    National Nutrition Policy and Strategic Plan 2007-2012

    2012
    Having noted that the Food Security and Nutrition Policy of 1990 and other development policies that contain elements of nutrition did not give adequate attention to nutrition programmes and services the Government developed the National Nutrition Policy.
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    Zero hunger:transforming evidence-based success into effective change

    Action Against Hunger, 2011
    This briefing paper, published by Action Against Hunger, seeks to understand why and how countries like Brazil, Peru, Mozambique, Malawi, and Bangladesh have managed to reduce undernutrition, while others have not.
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    Determinants of child nutrition in Malawi

    Economics Department, University of Malawi, 2006
    The problem of malnutrition amongst children under 5 in Africa has worsened in recent years following increasing levels of poverty and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In Malawi the available statistics are shocking: half of the children below the age of five years are too short for their age (stunted); 25 percent are too thin for their age (underweight); 5 percent are too thin for their height (wasted).
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    Guidelines for estimating the month and year of birth of young children

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008
    A child’s age is an essential piece of information for evaluating the many facets of the child’s nutritional status. Several core food security and nutrition indicators relating to children require age for their construction. However, in many countries, there is no custom of recording children’s date of birth, so it becomes necessary to estimate their age.
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    Food assistance programming in the context of HIV

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007
    This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes.
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    Emergency Nutrition Network special supplement: community-based therapeutic care

    Emergency Nutrition Network, 2004
    This supplement, published by the Emergency Nutrition Network, focuses on community-based therapeutic care (CTC) programmes for the treatment of acute malnutrition. It presents field experiences and case studies from Ethiopia, Malawi, North Darfur in North Sudan, and South Sudan, covering management, technical, and cultural issues.

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