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Diarrhea
UVA School of Medicine Researchers to Lead Worldwide Study on Links Between Malnutrition, Intestinal Infection and Child Development
April 29th, 2009
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine will lead the largest-ever worldwide effort to investigate how malnutrition and intestinal infections lead to serious lifelong physical and mental problems in children living in developing countries. The five-year study is funded by a $30 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). Nearly one-third of all children in developing countries and more than one billion people worldwide suffer from malnutrition – a condition that has a severe and far-reaching impact on the global population. ...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-04-29)
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