Effect of community-based peer counsellors on exclusive breastfeeding practices in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a randomised controlled trial [see commments].

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Published in Lancet on November 11, 2000

Authors

R Haider1, A Ashworth, I Kabir, S R Huttly

Author Affiliations

1: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh. rhaider@ufhp.bdmail.net

Associated clinical trials:

Mobile -Solutions Aiding Knowledge for Health Improvement (M-SAKHI) | NCT02457923

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