Sentences with phrase «maternal iodine deficiency»

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Kristof and WuDunn make three specific recommendations for immediate action: «A $ 10 billion effort over five years to educate girls,» focusing on Africa but also encouraging Afghanistan and Pakistan to do better; a drive to iodize salt in poor countries, to improve I.Q. points lost to iodine deficiency in utero; and a twelve - year, $ 1.6 billion campaign to eradicate obstetric fistula and to reduce maternal mortality (pp. 246 — 47).