C/N/99. Nutrition for Developing Countries Exam paper

This is a short answer paper and provides brief answers to 16 questions on health, child infections, nutrition and WHO's definitions and strategies on nutrition for children. Providing adequate child nutrition to counter diseases should be one of the main agendas of any developing country and controlling infections such as HIV is an important issue, especially in Africa. These questions here emphasize on child malnutrition, nutritional wasting, childhood infection, protein energy malnutrition, nutritional stress, vitamin A deficiency and supplements, diseases such as kwashiorkor and outcomes of droughts, food shortage and famine. Different perspectives on these issues are provided in the form of short answers.