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Studies from Department of Health and Human Services reveal new findings on HIV/AIDS in children

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 30th, 2008

Investigators publish new data in the report 'Prevalence of malnutrition in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome orphans in the Nyanza province of Kenya: a comparison of conventional indexes with a composite index of anthropometric failure.' According to a study from the United States, "The prevalence of undernutrition in children is commonly reported using a conventional index, which identifies three conventional categories: stunting, underweight, and wasting. Recently, a composite index of anthropometric failure was developed to categorize undernutrition into seven mutually exclusive categories, including single failures (stunting, underweight, or wasting) and...

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