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31 October 2018 Issue n° 8
ISSN: 2406-5625
The Impact of the Zika Outbreak on Women and Girls in Northeastern Brazil
www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 15 February 2015
Report of Meeting: 4 November 2014, Roma
BMC Medicine 2014, 12:196
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/12/196
Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) programs targeted at children aged 6–59 months are implemented in many countries. By improving immune function, vitamin A (VA) reduces mortality associated with measles, diarrhea, and other illnesses. There is currently a debate regarding the relevance of VAS, but a...midst the debate, researchers acknowledge that the majority of nationally-representative data on VA status is outdated. To address this data gap and contribute to the debate, we examined data from 82 countries implementing VAS programs, identified other VA programs, and assessed the recentness of national VA deficiency (VAD) data.
Article published in: Nutrients, 2017, 9, 190
https://doi.org/10.3390/nu9030190
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