AIDS, drought, and child malnutrition in southern Africa

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 551-563

  Mason, John B ^a   Bailes, Adam ^a,c   Mason, Karen E ^b   Yambi, Olivia ^c   Jonsson, Urban ^c   Hudspeth, Claudia ^c   Hailey, Peter ^c   Kendle, Andrea ^c   Brunet, Dominique ^c   Martel, Pierre ^c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

Child nutrition; Drought; Food security; HIV AIDS; Lesotho; Malawi; Mozambique; Southern Africa; Swaziland; Underweight; Weight for age; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CROP; DATA ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; LESOTHO; MALAWI; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; MOZAMBIQUE; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWAZILAND; UNDERWEIGHT; ZAMBIA; ZIMBABWE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA, SOUTHERN; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NATURAL DISASTERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RAIN; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; URBAN POPULATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 27644542259     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2005726     Document Type: Article

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