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Eating vit A pills, deworming doesn’t cut child mortality’ [1]

Study Says A Trial On Vitamin Supplementation Among Preschoolers Did Not Substantiate Earlier Claim Of 30% Reduction

Two so-called magic bullets of the international health community’s armoury — pre-school vitamin A supplementation, assumed to reduce child mortality by a quarter and intestinal deworming, assumed to improve child nutrition, growth, and cognitive development — have been shown to have no significant effect on child mortality. This was revealed in one of the largest trials ever:

Publication Date: 
20/03/2013
Rema Nagarajan [2]
Times Of India (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
India [4], Child Health [5], Infant mortality [6], Nutrition [7], Uttar Pradesh [8], Health Care [9], Diarrhoea [10], Measles [11], Developing Countries [12], Health [13]

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