Importance of optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in achieving millennium development goals.
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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent the widest commitment in history to addressing global poverty and ill health. The fourth goal (MDG-4) commits the international community to reducing mortality in children aged younger than 5 years by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. The first goal (MDG-1) pertaining to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty includes prevalence of underweight children less than five years of age as one of the indicator to gauge for achieving this goal(1).
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Indian pediatrics
دوره 45 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008