Maternal and infant nutrition reviews : Lesotho : a guide to the literature

The literature is classified as follows: nutrition and health status; dietary beliefs about pregnancy, lactation, breast milk substitutes, weaning, illness, and cure; dietary practices, covering food sources, the standard dietary pattern, and recent changes in diets; the correlation of nutritional status with child malnutrition; and health and nutrition policies, including maternity legislation, an infant milk marketing code, and the Third Five-Year Health Plan, and programs, including those of the Government of Lesotho, donors, and voluntary agencies. A brief overview of the information available under each category is presented. According to a 1981 consultant"s report, Lesotho"s chief nutritional problems are reducing remaining nutritional deficiencies, reducing reliance on food aid, and facing the population increases that would result from a return of Basotho miners from South Africa. Brief commentaries on nutrition-related issues and a 12-item annotated bibliography (1971-81) are appended, as is a 24-item list of literature unavailable for review.