Objectives: Twice-yearly child health days (CHDs) have had remarkable success reaching children twice-yearly with life-saving interventions, including vitamin A supplementation (VAS). In 2012, over 80% of targeted children in Sub-Saharan Africa received VAS according to tally-she...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21079
Objectives: In the Littoral region of Cameroon, targeted awareness and social mobilization has increased coverage of vitamin A supplementation (VAS) during Child Health Days (CHDs) from 52.9%% in 2011 to 71.6% in 2012. Following this increase, coverage stagnated for the 2nd round...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21125
Fama Kondo, Traore Doufain, Lazare Coulibaly, Zana Berthe, Fatoumata DIALLO, Marie Diakite, M’Bo Awa, Abdramane Maiga, Leigh Jaschke & Houleymata Diarra·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Since 2003, the Malian Ministry of Health (MoH) and its partners have adopted and scaled up a national program to deliver Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) to children 6-59 months and post-partum women. The programme has achieved consistently high coverage of over 90%,...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21144