Report on Childhood Disability and Malnutrition in Turkana/Kenya

CBM Switzerland CBM in collaboration with the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as well as the Kenyan Red Cross conducted a research study in the Horn of Africa crisis region about “Childhood Disability and Malnutrition in Turkana/Kenya”. The aim of the study was to assess whether children with disabilities were included within humanitarian and food security response programmes in Turkana, and whether there is an association between disability and malnutrition. (Photo: Anthropometric measurements taken on a child in the study, © ICED/Maria Zuurmond)

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