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Developments:
A UNICEF programme, instigated during the country's 2005 food crisis, helps reduce child malnutrition in Niger. The programme is wide-ranging and its focus goes beyond food: as well as treatment to those who are malnourished, Vitamin A supplements, oral rehydration salts and deworming, it promotes handwashing, prevents diseases like measles and malaria which are more likely to be fatal if those infected are malnourished, and encourages women to breastfeed their babies (Niger, the world's poorest country, has its lowest rates of exclusive breastfeeding).
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