… five years of age (n = 2 485) and their mothers in rural districts of the Eastern Cape and
KwaZulu-Natal … Children of mothers with less than five years schooling were more likely to be …

… developing countries are at high risk of dying before their fifth year of life.[7] Thousands of
children under the age of five years die in SA each year,[7] with as many as 24 216 deaths …

… specimens of children between 0 and 5 years of age collected between 1st January 2011
and 31st July 2015 from hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Respiratory specimens were …

… A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1143 PSAC aged 1–5 years in 34 … A
Kruskal–Wallis test was used to compare the differences in infection intensity with age. Pearson Chi-…

… The INP targets nutritionally vulnerable communities, groups and individuals, with children
under five years of age and at-risk pregnant and lactating women the priority target groups.…

… under five years, respectively, while 40.1 million children under the age of five years were
overweight [3]. In Africa, the number of stunted children under five years of age increased by …

… For young children between the age of 1 month and 5 years, we observed a higher fraction
of VA interviews not being completed. This lower VA completion rate could be due to the …

… study of children aged 2 19 years in the Ntuze/Onguye area of rural KwaZulu-Natal and
found a … Five of these children could not be located, giving a follow-up rate of 97%. Of the 158 …

… Children with height-for-age, weight-forage and weight-for-height z-scores more than two …
five years of age.Anthropometric indicators were therefore presented for children up to the age …

… The WHO classifies children’s nutritional status under five different categories, from children
aged 5 years and older, and therefore the data for this study were collected accordingly to …