From the *Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; the †Office of Health, Save the Children Federation—USA, Washington, DC; the ‡Departments of Pediatrics, Clinical Pathology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; the §Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh; and the ||Healthy Mother Healthy Child Results Package, John Snow, Inc, Cairo, Egypt
Accepted for publication April 5, 2004.
Supported primarily by The United States Agency for International Development, through the Healthy Mother Healthy Child Results Package grant to John Snow, Inc., Cairo, Egypt. Support for development of study design and data management and analysis was also provided by the Thrasher Research Fund, the Society for Pediatric Dermatology, the Johns Hopkins Family Health and Child Survival Cooperative Agreement with the United States Agency for International Development and Save the Children Federation-USA through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Presented in part at the meeting of the International Society of Bioengineering and the Skin, Baltimore, MD, October 25, 2002.
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