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Breast-feeding in sub-Saharan Africa: outlook for 2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

Marie-Claude Dop  and
Kirsten B Simondon
Marie-Claude Dop
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit and Epidemiology & Prevention, Research Unit, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BP 5045, 34032 Montpellier, France. E-mail: dop@mpl.ird.fr
Kirsten B Simondon
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit and Epidemiology & Prevention, Research Unit, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BP 5045, 34032 Montpellier, France. E-mail: dop@mpl.ird.fr
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Public Health Nutrition , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , August 2001 , pp. 929 - 930
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Copyright © CABI Publishing 2001

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