A recent study by Quattrin [ 9] shows that families and pediatricians usually refer children to nutritional medical facilities for being underweight rather than overweight; indeed, in Italian rural mentality, "well nourished" children are still considered "healthy" children.
UNICEF's emergency support for these children and their families includes tens of thousands of hygiene kits, emergency health kits, safe water, latrines and bathing facilities, nutritional supplies and educational kits for all children.
The Southern African Development Community Protocol on Gender and Development, which Zambia has signed, commits states by 2015 to "ensure the provision of hygiene and sanitary facilities and nutritional needs of women, including women in prison" [ 6].
Information on birth weight and distance to facility and nutritional status, known risk factors of under-five mortality, were not collected at the RDSS and hence were not available for analysis, presenting a limitation of this study.
Our prospective study highlighted the importance of prenatal maternal nutritional status and household sanitary facilities as potential targets for intervention.
Significant and consistent predictors of infant undernutrition in both logistic and linear multiple regression models were male gender, low birth weight, poor maternal nutritional status, poor household sanitary facilities and living in a rural residence.
Next, problems and controversies surrounding the school lunch program will be examined including financial contract abuses by large companies, nutritional deficiencies, and lack of clean facilities.
UNICEF is also restoring and equipping health facilities, developing medical and nutritional supply pipelines and providing clean and safe water to vulnerable children and families.
Young Child Survival and Development Improve quality and usage of health facilities and improve the nutritional status of children and women, so that under-five mortality is reduced by half and maternal mortality by a quarter by 2015.
Improve quality and usage of health facilities and improve the nutritional status of children and women, so that under-five mortality is reduced by half and maternal mortality by a quarter by 2015.
