Reframing Undernutrition: Faecally-Transmitted Infections and the 5 As
Robert Chambers and Gregor von Medeazza
Despite many initiatives to assure food access, and growing economies, high levels of undernutrition persist in much of Asia. This Working Paper explores the increasing evidence that this is due to the continuing high incidence of open defecation (OD), combined with population density, which has mulitiple debilitating outcomes. With the focus on diarrhoea-related ill health, there has