Children at the Jimma community orphanage between the ages of 5 and 14 years were given a battery of tests to assess their intellectual, social, and nutritional well-being relative to a group of family-reared controls. On two tests of intellectual ability, the Ravens Progressive Matrices and the...

A total of 6414 mothers in a rural Ethiopian district were sampled and interviewed about the presence of under-5 yr children and the prevalence of diarrhea in the previous 2 weeks. There were 707 cases of diarrhea among the 6384 under-5 yr children, yielding a period prevalence of 11.07%. The...

Efforts to prevent HIV from becoming widespread among the youth population 15-24 years in Bangladesh are in the early stages. However, conservative religious and cultural norms may curtail the dissemination of needed information about sexuality and condoms. The community-readiness stages model...