[pronut-hiv] HealthNet News Special Edition on Childhood Nutrition

["Pamela Scorza" <pamela@healthnet.org>]

Special Edition- Child Nutrition	 20 February, 2008	 
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Over the course of the coming year AED-SATELLIFE will publish five special
editions of HealthNet News focusing on child health. Topics covered will
include children and HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, nursing care, and
behavior change communication. Attached is the first in this series, dealing
with the crucial issue of children?s nutrition.

The World Bank?s 2006 report "Repositioning Nutrition as Central to
Development"
<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NUTRITION/Resources/281846-1131636806329
/NutritionStrategyOverview.pdf>  cited malnutrition as the underlying cause
of at least 3.5 million deaths worldwide, and 35 percent of the disease
burden in children younger than 5 years of age. The number of global deaths
attributed to malnutrition constitutes the largest percentage of any risk
factor in this age group.

This January the Lancet produced a series on nutrition, bringing to light
the deplorable state of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the negligence
of the development community in dealing with this plight. 

This special edition of HealthNet News on child nutrition presents
peer-reviewed reports of research and analysis on nutrition interventions
that outline the most effective actions to take to combat childhood
undernutrition. Below is the table of contents for this issue.

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1. Major Reduction of Malaria Morbidity with Combined Vitamin A and Zinc
Supplementation in Young Children in Burkina Faso: a Randomized Double Blind
Trial 


2. A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Oral Zinc in the Treatment of Acute and
Persistent Diarrhea 


3. Maternal and Child Undernutrition: Effective Action at National Level 


4. Clinical Signs that Predict Severe Illness in Children Under Age 2
months: a Multicentre Study 


5. What Works? Interventions for Maternal and Child Undernutrition and
Survival 


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