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Nepal's vitamin A supplementation programme, 15 years on: Sustained growth in coverage and equity and children still missed

S. Thapa Saving Newborn Lives Programme, Save the Children USA, Washington, DC, USA; World Health Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 325-334 | Received 22 Mar 2008, Published online: 16 Jun 2009

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Sharad K. Sharma, Dhruba R. Ghimire, Dadhi Adhikari & Shyam Thapa. (2023) Birth registration in Nepal: An assessment of progress based on two national surveys. PLOS Global Public Health 3:1, pages e0000759.
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Anselm S Berde, Petra Bester & Iolanthé M Kruger. (2019) Coverage and factors associated with vitamin A supplementation among children aged 6–59 months in twenty-three sub-Saharan African countries. Public Health Nutrition 22:10, pages 1770-1776.
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Kassandra L Harding, Víctor M Aguayo & Patrick Webb. (2017) Hidden hunger in South Asia: a review of recent trends and persistent challenges. Public Health Nutrition 21:4, pages 785-795.
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Yubraj Acharya. (2018) The impact of vitamin A supplementation in childhood on adult outcomes: An exploration of mechanisms, timing of exposure, and heterogeneous effects. Social Science & Medicine 201, pages 95-102.
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Shyam Thapa & Sharad K. Sharma. (2012) Women’s Awareness of Liberalization of Abortion Law and Knowledge of Place for Obtaining Services in Nepal. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 27:2, pages 208-216.
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