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Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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To solve child malnourishment, India must first target child marriage (Quartz India)

May 17, 2019

Quartz India published an article based on an IFPRI analysis of adolescent births in India. IFPRI researchers Phong Hong Nguyen, Samuel Scott and Purnima Menon analyzed 60,096 mother-child pairs, of which 14,107 women (about 25%) first gave birth during adolescence. They found that stunting and underweight prevalence were over 10 percentage points higher in children born to adolescent mothers than in children born to adult mothers.

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