Effect of Breastfeeding Promotion on Early Childhood Caries and Breastfeeding Duration among 5 Year Old Children in Eastern Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Trial.

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Published in PLoS One on May 04, 2015

Authors

Nancy Birungi1, Lars T Fadnes1, Isaac Okullo2, Arabat Kasangaki2, Victoria Nankabirwa3, Grace Ndeezi4, James K Tumwine4, Thorkild Tylleskär5, Stein Atle Lie6, Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm6

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
2: Department of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
3: Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, United States of America.
4: Department of Paediatrics and Child health, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
5: Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
6: Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Associated clinical trials:

PROMISE EBF: Safety and Efficacy of Exclusive Breastfeeding Promotion in the Era of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa | NCT00397150

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