BMJ  2005;331 (19 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7526.0-c

Ensure the basics for children in developing countries

Fortification of food with zinc and vitamin A is the most cost effective intervention for improving child health in developing countries with high child mortality. In another cost effectiveness analysis in the series on achieving the millennium development goals, Edejer and colleagues (p 1177) report that micronutrients and measles immunisation should be provided routinely to all children. The failure to rise to the challenge of malnutrition is threatening to hamper the child survival strategy, say the authors.

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