Vaccination of household chickens results in a shift in young children's diet and improves child growth in rural Kenya.

ABSTRACT: Childhood growth faltering remains unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa. Rural communities dependent on household food production with limited off-farm income or liquid assets to bridge seasonal food availability are especially vulnerable. A cross-sectional survey in Siaya County, Kenya identified 23.5 and 4.8% of children under 5 y of age as stunted and wasted, respectively, using height-for-age Z (HAZ) scores to detect stunting and weight-for-height Z (WHZ) scores for wasting. Although these households are classified as living in poverty or extreme poverty with very limited off-farm income, households commonly have on-farm resources that could be developed to improve nutrition. While 95% of these households have chickens and consumption of eggs was shown to increase childhood growth b

SUBMITTER: Otiang E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9214528 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature