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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals through mainstreaming nutrition: speaking with one voice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

Ian Darnton-Hill ,
Martin W Bloem  and
Mickey Chopra
Ian Darnton-Hill*
Affiliation:
Senior Adviser, Child Survival and Nutrition, Nutrition Section, UNICEF, New York, NY 10006, USA
Martin W Bloem
Affiliation:
Chief, Nutrition, World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
Mickey Chopra
Affiliation:
Director, Health Systems Research Unit, MRC, South Africa and Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Capetown, South Africa
*
*Email: idarntonhill@unicef.org
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Public Health Nutrition , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , August 2006 , pp. 537 - 539
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