In this title of Sex differences in nutritional status of HIV-exposed children in Rwanda: a longitudinal study, the author described the substantial loss in disability-adjusted life years as associated with nutritional stunting, wasting and an associated increase in infant and young child mortality; the author has included information on the summary of existing knowledge by highlighting numbers of under-five died due to each year due to preventable, interventions to be implemented based upon gender analysis of political, social, cultural and local, nutritional status among young girls in Sub-Saharan Africa, status of malnutrition in Rwanda among others .
By using the retrospective cohort study, the author had objective to identify the HIV-exposed children both girls and boys participating in a supplementary feeding programme providing fortified blend in the context of HIV infection in mothers and author highlighted that males were consistently more likely to be malnourished across all age groups.
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