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. 2018 Dec 7:363:k4541.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4541.

Adolescent girls' nutrition and prevention of anaemia: a school based multisectoral collaboration in Indonesia

Marion Leslie Roche  1 , Louise Bury  2 , Isma Novitasari Yusadiredja, Eriana Kartika Asri  3 , Tutut Sri Purwanti  3 , Sri Kusyuniati  3 , Anjali Bhardwaj  4 , Doddy Izwardy  5
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Adolescent girls' nutrition and prevention of anaemia: a school based multisectoral collaboration in Indonesia

Marion Leslie Roche et al. BMJ. .

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    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] BMJ. 2018 Dec 17;363:k5321. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k5321. BMJ. 2018. PMID: 30559129 No abstract available.

Abstract

Marion Roche and colleagues highlight lessons from a multisectoral project implementing weekly iron supplementation for adolescent girls in West Java, Indonesia, which provides a scalable model for reducing anaemia

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: funding from the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (PMNCH) secretariat (LB) and from Nutrition International (INY) for consultancy fees and related costs for undertaking the case study; employees of Nutrition International for implementing the project that is the focus of the case study (EKA, TSP, SK); and attendance at the forthcoming PMNCH partners’ forum in December 2018 (MLR, LB, EKA, TSP, SK, DI, AB). The views expressed in this article are the authors and do not necessarily represent the views, decisions, or policies of the institutions with which the authors are affiliated.

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