Word: nepal
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...Lancet. They had cut child mortality in half--a figure that would fall to a quarter by 2003--for a cost of $2.64 for each child saved. The program is being adopted across India, where more than a quarter of the 4 million annual newborn deaths occur, and in Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and parts of Africa...
Saving the lives of sickly children doesn't take much: a little money, some medicine, the right food. In Nepal, they've discovered one more factor: the power of the grandmother. It was Ram Shrestha, chemist and health expert, who figured out how to unleash...
...poverty in Nepal and the toll it exacts on its smallest citizens are staggering. Twenty years ago, the infant-mortality rate was 133 for every 1,000 births, most of the babies claimed by pneumonia and diarrhea. By the 1980s, it was clear that a lack of vitamin A in the Nepalese diet was a factor in the high rates of infant mortality and in a form of blindness. All it would take to reduce both would be a low-cost vitamin-A capsule taken as infrequently as twice a year...
Great news, but how to get the word--and the vitamins--out? The government set up a program to do the job, but in a rugged country like Nepal, with a scattered population innately suspicious of strangers, it wasn't going to be easy...
Shrestha had some ideas. A onetime Peace Corps employee who earned his master's degree in international health at Tufts University in Massachusetts, he returned to Nepal in 1991, at about the time the vitamin program was getting under way, and offered his assistance...