Objectives: To assess Se status of 54-60 month-old children in the Amhara region, Ethiopia Methods: Serum from 280 children from five zones of the Amhara regional state, Ethiopia, was analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Results: The mean serum Se co...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21143
Objectives: The aim of study was to evaluate efficacy of NaFeEDTA (10 ppm Fe) added to high extraction wheat flour in a randomized, double blind, controlled trial in women of child bearing age. Methods: A 5 month long, school based feeding trial was carried out in an urban and a...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21121
Objectives: We aimed to assess knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation among pregnant women and health staff in rural Niger. Methods: KAP were assessed in 4 randomly selected villages in the Zinder region of Niger as part of a formati...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21071
Objectives: Despite concerted efforts, diarrhea remains a serious public health problem in Senegal: U5MR: 72 per 1,000 live births; Diarrhea prevalence: 21.1% (second leading cause of morbidity); 17% of child deaths due to diarrhea (third leading cause of child death). To address...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21284
Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of MIR to predict micronutrient status while reanalyzing archived soil (n=1649) samples after long-term storage (40 years). Methods: The infrared spectra of the samples collected from 30 countries from across t...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21072
Objectives: To assess horticultural models for micro nitrient hunger alleviation in Africa. Methods: We summarized five different intelligent agronomic model that significantly improved vegetable productivity, income, health, employment and could solve hidden hunger menace in the...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21285
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
Objectives: Education interventions are often used to address nutrition-related problems. In resource-poor populations with low literacy the success of such an intervention depends on keeping the messages simple, practical and affordable. The objective is to design a nutrition ed...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21174
Objectives: The Program Assessment Guide (PAG) is a 44 page 9 module workshop facilitation guide developed as "a tool to strengthen the design and implementation of large-scale nutrition programs." It has been used to guide workshops for this purpose in Kyrgyzstan, Bolivia, Tanz...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21073
Objectives: The caregiver’s knowledge, attitudes and practices on the utilization of Zinc and ORS for diarrhea treatment in Northern Nigeria call for concerns. We conducted a baseline in Northern Nigeria to determine the coverage, adherence, barriers and facilitating factors that...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21122