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Program of the 4th Commonwealth Congress on Diarrhoea and Malnutrition

Friday 21st November 1997

Postgraduate Course in Paediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition

Moderator: Prof. D.S.Akram

Epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori in developing countries - Dr. Peter Sullivan (UK)
Inflammatory bowel disease: Recent advances in management - Dr. Bhupinder Sandhu (UK)
Intractable diarrhoea of infancy - Dr. Souheil Shabib (Saudi Arabia)

Moderator: Prof. Zeenat Essani

Gastroesophageal Reflux - Dr. Balvir Tomar (India)
Low osmolality ORS - Prof. Santosh Mittal (India)
Salt homeostasis during dehydration and rehydration - Dr. Asifa Murtaza (Pakistan)
Gastrointestinal Bleeding in children - Prof. Iqbal Memon (Pakistan)

Moderator: Prof. S. Inkisar Ali

Approach to the child with malabsorption - Dr. Sohail Thobani (Pakistan)
Coeliac Disease - Dr. Uzma Shah (Pakistan)

1730-1930 Congress Inaugural & Welcome Reception
2000-2100 CAPGAN Council Meeting (Hotel Holiday Inn)

Saturday 22nd November 1997

Plenary session I: Childhood Malnutrition (0900-1100)

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Lawrence Weaver (UK)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Tariq I. Bhutta (Lahore)

P.1- Perinatal nutrition in developing countries - Dr. Anthony Costello (UK)
P.2- Current concepts in the pathogenesis and management of protein energy malnutrition - Prof. John C. Waterlow, London (UK)
P.3- Alteration of colonic function in the malnourished infant: lessons from the laboratory - Dr. Decker Butzner, Calgary (Canada)
P.4- Recent advances in the management of malnutrition - Prof. Benjamin Caballero, Baltimore (USA)

Plenary session II: Emerging Pathogens and Problems (1130-1300)

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Nurul Islam (Bangladesh)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Sajid Maqbool (Lahore)

P.5- Helicobacter pylori: Significance and importance in developing countries - Prof. Lawrence Weaver, Glasgow (UK)
P.6- Blastocystis hominis : a real pathogen ? - Prof. Harendra d'Silva, Galle, (Sri Lanka)
P.7- The impact of HIV on child Health : The African Situation - Prof. Dankwart F. Wittenberg, Pretoria, (South Africa)

Plenary session III: Persistent Diarrhoea (1400-1500)

CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Souheil Shabib (Saudi Arabia)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Abdul Waheed (Lahore)

P.8- Pathogenesis and therapeutic aspects of persistent diarrhoea in childhood - Prof. M.K. Bhan, New Delhi (India)
P.9- Optimal feeding strategies in persistent diarrhoea: future prospects - Dr. Peter Sullivan ,Oxford (UK)

FREE COMMUNICATIONS I: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DIARRHEA (1530-1730)

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Dankwart Wittenberg (South Africa)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Meher Taj Roghani (Peshawar)

F.1- ARE DIARRHOEA CONTROL PROGRAMS LIKELY TO REDUCE CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION - REVISITED! K. Molbak Projecto de Saude, Bandim, Guinea-Bissau and Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

F.2- PREVALENCE AND DETERMINANTS OF DIARRHOEA AMONG RURAL PAKISITANI CHILDREN OF LESS THAN THREE YEARS. MA Shah 1, MA Yousafzai 2, MH Rahber1- 1. Department of Community
Health Sciences; 2. Department of Paediatrics; The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi-74800, Pakistan.

F.3- CRYPTOSPORIDIUM DIARRHOEA IN DAIRY CALVES AND THEIR ATTENDANTS IN BANGLADESH. ASM Hamidur Rahman, KA Al-Mahmud, AWMS Islam, MMH Mondal and A Rahman, ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Agricultural University, and Savar Dairy Farm, Dhaka.

F.4- CLINICAL AND ETIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS READMITTED INTO A DIARRHOEA HOSPITAL. Jena D. Hamadani, Nahrina Dewan, A.S.G. Faruque. International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B).

F.5- EVALUATION OF CLINICAL AND NUTRITIONAL RISK FACTORS FOR LIFE THREATENING ACUTE DIARRHOEA. M El-Mougi, R Langsten, A Elbhar, RL Haberberge Jr, B. Kirkwood - Paediatric Department, Bab El-Sha'reya Hospital, Alzhar University; Social Research C. American University, Cairo Egypt, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygine, U.K.

F.6- EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ESCHERICHIA COLI DIARRHOEA IN HONG KONG CHlLDREN. R. Biswas1, E.A.S. Nelson1, P.J 1 , J. Lyon2, P.B Sullivan1, and P. Echeverria3 - 1. Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2. Department of Microbiology Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong and 3. Armed Forces Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkong, Thailand.

F.7- GASTROENTERITIS IN AN URBAN HOSPITAL IN MALAYSIA: A ONE YEAR RETROSPECTIVE STUDY. WS Lee, SP Lee; Department of Paediatrics, University of Malaya Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

F.8- RISK FACTORS FOR DEATH FROM CHOLERA. Ujjwal Dhar, Edward T. Ryan, Wasif A. Khan, ASG Faruque, Mohammed A. Salam, Stephen B. Calderwood, George J. Fuchs, Michael L. Beenish. ICCDRB, Bangladesh, Massachusetts General Hospital, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.

FREE COMMUNICATIONS II: PATHOGENESIS OF DIARRHEA (1530-1730)

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Abdul M. Molla (Kuwait)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Hassan Memon (Hyderabad)

F.9- DETECTION OF NONCULTURABLE SHIGELLA DYSENTRIAE 1 FROM ARTIFICIALLY CONTAMINATED VOLUNTEER'S FINGERS USING FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY AND PCR TECHNIQUES. I.S. Islam, M.Z. Hossain, R.B. Sack and M.J. Albert ICDDR,B, GPO Box-128, Dhaka-I000, Bangladesh.

F.10- CLONAL CLUSTERING AND COLONIZATION FACTORS OF STal+LT+ ESCHERICHIA COLI. Havard Valvatne and Halvor Sommerfelt- Department of Molecular Biology and Center for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway.

F.11- THE COLONIZATION FACTOR ANTIGEN I LIKE GROUP OF FIMBRIAL PROTEINS OF HUMAN ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI. Wim Gaastra, Harleen M.S. Grewal, Linda van Dijk, Johannes G. Kusters, Ann-Mari Svennerholm and Halvor Sommerfelt Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of Goteborg, Sweden; University of Bergen, Norway.

F.12- FAS-MEDIATED APOPTOSIS AND PERFORIN-INDUCED CELL DEATH IN SHIGELLOSIS. R. Raqib, C. Ekberg, A. Lindberg, J. Andersson. Div. of Clinical Bacteriology, Huddinge Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Dept. of Immunology, Stockholm University, Sweden.

F.13- PLASMA ENDOTOXIN, PLASMA AND STOOL PRO AND INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES AND STOOL SHIGA TOXIN IN PATlENTS WITH SHIGELLOSIS. Wasif A Khan, Mohammed A. Salam, Jeffery Griffiths, Sabine de Breucker, Arnaud Marchand, Charles Dinarello, David Acheson, Gerald Keusch and Michael L. Bennish. ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh and NEMC, Boston, USA.

F.14- NEURAL CREST TUMOURS (NCT) IN CHILDREN WITH SECRETORY DIARRHOEA. A. Sibal , I.W. Booth, M.S. Murphy. Dept. of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, The Institute of Child Health, University of Brimingham, UK.

F.15- HIV PREVALENCE OUTCOME AND MONOSACCHARIDE INTOLERANCE IN A PAEDIATRIC DIARRHOEA UNIT IN SOUTH AFRICA. NC Rollins, DF Wittenberg, HM Coovadia - King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban, South Africa.

F.16- NEWLY ISOLATED BACTERIOPHAGES FOR VIBRIO CHOLERAE 0139. B.L Sarkar, A.K. Chakrabarti, A.N. Ghosh, M.R. Saha & S.K. Niyogi-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Calcutta.

Sunday 23rd November 1997

Plenary session IV: Pathogenesis of diarrhoeal diseases and Malnutrition (0900-1100)

CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Peter Sullivan (UK)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. M. Imran (Peshawar)

P.10- Immunopathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease: implications for diarrhoeal disorders - Dr. Simon Murch, London (UK)
P.11- The role of cytokines in the pathogenesis of Shogellosis - Dr. Rubhana Raquib (Bangladesh)
P.12- Potential of stable isotopes in childhood nutrition and diarrhoeal disease research - Prof. Lawrence Weaver (UK)
P.13- Intestinal permeability in protein energy malnutrition - Dr. David Brewster (Australia)

Plenary session V: ORT and beyond: Prevention & Management strategies for childhood diarrhoea (1130-1300)

CHAIRPERSON:    Prof. Santosh Mittal (India)
CO-CHAIRPERSON:    Prof. Fehmida Jalil (Lahore)

P.14- Nutritional management of acute diarrhoea - Dr. Peter Sullivan (UK)
P.15- Improved ORS formulations : current status and future prospects - Prof. Abdul M. Molla (Kuwait)
P.16- Vaccination strategies for diarrhoeal disorders in childhood - Prof. Maharaj K. Bhan (New Delhi, India)

FREE COMMUNICATIONS III: MANAGEMENT OF DIARRHEA (1400-1545)

CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Bhupinder Sandhu (UK)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Abdul Ghaffar Nagi (Quetta)

F.17- SIGNIFICANCE OF MATERNAL EDUCATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF INFANTILE DIARRHOEA. B.K. Jain, 1R.K. Soni, P.J.S. Gill, Department of Paediatrics and Social and Preventive Medicine, Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana. Punjab. India.

F.18- MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE INFANTILE DIARRHEA IN RURAL AREAS - AN ANALYTICAL STUDY. Dr. V.K. Kapoor, Child Care Center, Shikohabad (U.P.) India.

F.19- A COMMUNITY BASED DOUBLE BLIND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF REDUCED OSMOLARITY ORS COMPARED WITH STANDARD WHO ORS. P. Valentiner-Branth , H. Steinsland, H. K. Gjessing, G. Santos, M. K. Bhan, P. Aaby , H. Sommerfelt, K. Molbak. 1. Projecto de Saude, Bandim, Guinea-Bissau; 2. Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3. Center for Intemational Health, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.

F.20- HOME MANAGEMENT OF DIARRHOEA: BEYOND ORS. Stina Almroth and Michael C. Latham. Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. USA.

F.21- KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF MOTHERS REGARDING USE OF DRUGS IN ACUTE WATERY DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN IN URBAN SLUMS OF LAHORE. Nosheen Javaid, Abdul Waheed, Sheerin Hayat- Paediatrics Ward, Jinnah Hospital, Allama lqbal Medical College, Lahore.

F.22- COMPARISON OF SAGODANA ORS AND RICE ORS IN CASES OF ACUTE WATERY DIARRHOEA. Siddiqa Ibrahim, Jamal Raza, Zeenat Isani. National Institute of Child Health, Karachi.

F.23- HYPO-OSMOLAR VERSUS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION - A DOUBLE BLIND CLINICAL TRIAL. Seema Alam, K. Afzal, P. Kumar- Department of Pediatrics Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.

FREE COMMUNICATIONS IV: Diseases of the stomach and oesophagus. (1400-1530)

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. H. DeSilva (Sri Lanka)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Mumtaz Hassan (Islamabad)

F.24- GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX IN CHILDREN. S. H. Qack, M.M. Aw, Department of Pediatrics, National University Hospital, Singapore.

F.25- THE IMPACT OF BREAST FEEDING AND OTHER FACTORS ON THE PREVALENCE OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX. B.K Sandhu, R Al Atia, and JGolding. Institute of Child Health, Royal Hospital for sick Children, Bristol, U.K.

F.26- MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE OESOPHAGUS. A. D. Phillips , S.L.A. Warburton, S.H. Murch, M.A. Thomson. University Dept. of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Royal Free Hospital, London.

F.27- HELICOBACTER PYLORI (HP) INFECTION IN PAKISTAN. M.A Yusuf , L.K .Aftab, and S.M.U .Haq- Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Lahore, Pakistan.

F.28- HELICOBACTER PYLORI COLONIZATION IN INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE DIARRHOEA. Shafique A. Sarkar , M.M. Rahman, D. Mahalanabis, P.K. Bardhan, G.J. Fuchs, P. Hilderbrand, C. Beglinger, K. Gyr. International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.

HELICOBACTEF.29- HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION IN CHILDREN UNDERGOING ENDOSCOPIES. Assad Hafeez , Mumtaz Hassan - KRL Hospital, Islamabad; and Children Hospital, Islamabad.

Special Session: The status of diarrhoea and malnutrition in Pakistan: achievements and challenges

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Ashfaq A. Khan (Peshawar)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Margaret Kyenka Isabirye (UNICEF- Islamabad)

Impact of diarrhoea standard case management and role of DTUs - Prof Mushtaq A. Khan (Islamabad)
Epidemiology and profile of diarrhoea in Pakistan - Prof. D.S. Akram (Karachi)
Rational Drug therapy of diarrhoeal disorders: the Pakistan experience - Prof Tariq I. Bhutta (Lahore)
The Nutritional transition in Pakistan: where are we now? - Dr. Mushtaq Khan (Nutrition Division Islamabad)
Caring Practices to improve malnutrition - Margaret Kyenka Isabirye (UNICEF-Islamabad)

FREE COMMUNICATIONS V: PERSISTENT DIARRHEA. (1600-1745)

CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Simon Murch (UK)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Dr. S.K. Roy (Bangladesh)

F.30- SCREENING TESTS FOR COELIAC DISEASE IN INDIAN CHILDREN. AD Phillips, S Bhatnaghar, P Bhan, J Unsworth, R Lock, S Gupta, M Mathur, S Knutton, MK Bhan. Royal Free Hospital, London; Southmead Hospital, Bristol; Institute of Child Health, Birmingham; All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

F.31- T-CELL ACTIVATION MARKERS IN SMALL INTESTINAL MUCOSA IN CHRONIC DIARRHOEA OF CHILDHOOD. J.A .Walker-Smith, A. Jones, S.H. Murch, and AD.Phillips- Paediatric Gastroenterology, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.

F.32- RISK FACTORS FOR PERSISTENT DIARRHEA IN ACCRA, GHANA. P. Mensah, M. Armar-Klemesu, D. Yeboah-Menu & A. Ablordey - Noguchi Memorial Institute, University of Ghana, P.O Box 25, Legon, Ghana.

F.33- RISK FACTORS FOR SEVERE PERSISTENT DIARRHOEA. Nur H. Alam, Abu S.G. Faruque, Nahrina Dewan, Shafique A. Sarkar, George J. Fuchs. International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B).

F.34- ELEVATED LEVELS OF INTERLEUKIN-8 IN SERA OF CHILDREN WITH SEVERE INTRACTABLE DIARRHEA. SM Shabib, KSA Khabar, S. Siddiqui and S Bahabri- Departments of Pediatrics and Biological Research King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

F.35- IMPACT OF ZINC SUPPLEMENTATION IN PERSISTENT DIARRHOEA. N.Z.Jilani, P.Ahmad, R.A. Khan and S.Alam- Department of Paediatrics and Pharmacology, J.N.M.C.,Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.

F.36- OUTCOME OF PERSISTENT DIARRHOEA CASES. Seema Alam, Ashraf Malik- Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.

FREE COMMUNICATIONS VI: INFANT FEEDING PRACTICES: (1600-1725)

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. B.S. Lindblad (Karachi)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Anthony Costello (UK)

F.37-BREASTFEEDING PROMOTION CAMPAIGN: IMPACT ON PRACTICES IN A RURAL POPULATION. R.N. Ashraf, S. Zaman , B.S. Lindblad , L.A. Hanson - Department of Social and Preventive Paediatrics, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.

F.38- POST-NATAL LINEAR GROWTH, IMPACT OF AN INTERVENTION. F. Jalil, R.Ashraf, S. Zaman, L.A. Hanson, B.S. Lindblad, J. Karlberg- Department of Social and Preventive Paediatrics, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.

F.39- FEEDING PATTERNS AMONG UNDER FIVE CHILDREN DURING AND AFTER DIARRHOEA IN A RURAL COMMUNITY OF BANGLADESH. Khadiza Begum, Abdul Haque, K.M. Hassan Ameen, Asadullah Ghalib- National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Mohakali, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

F.40- IDENTIFICATION OF KEY COMPONENTS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF SUCCESSFUL BREASTFEEDING IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. Abu Yusuf Choudhury and Laila Arjumand, PIACT, Bangladesh.

F.41- BREAST FEEDING PRACTICE AND PROMOTION. Mohammad Husain Qadri , Riyad Ali Al-Harfi, and Mohammad Ali Al-Ghamdi- Saudi Arabia.

F.42- TYPHOID FEVER SITUATION AND "Vi" VACCINE EXPERIENCE IN ASIA. Leboulleux D1., Dutta A.K2 , Habiba Hassan3 - Merieux Connaught, Lyon, France; 2. Pasteur Merieux, New Delhi, India; 3. Pasteur Merieux Connaught, SMS House, PECHS, Karachi, Pakistan.

Monday 24th November 1997

Plenary session VI: War/ Famine and the politics of AID (0900-1100)

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Benjamin Caballero (USA)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Mushtaq A. Khan (Islamabad)

P.17- The effect of war and conflict on child health: lessons from Africa - Prof. Col John Pearn (Australia)
P.18- The impact of aid on child survival in Pakistan - Prof. A.G Billoo, Karachi (Pakistan)
P.19- International aid: poison or panacea? - Dr. Tony Nelson (Hong Kong)
P.20- Impact of diarrhoeal dosease control programme in Pakistan - Prof. Shaukat R. Khan (Lahore)

Plenary session VII: Micronutrients : the new frontier (1130-1300)

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. John S. Waterlow (UK)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Aijaz Arain (Hyderabad)

P.21- Vitamin A: current status - Prof. Bo S. Lindblad (Karachi)
P.22- The role of zinc in childhood diarrhoea: are we there yet? - Dr. Swapan K. Roy, (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
P.23- The role of iron in early childhood - Dr. David Brewster (Darwin, Austalia)

FREE COMMUNICATIONS VII: MICRONUTRIENTS-I (1400-1515)

CHAIRPERSON: Dr. David Brewster (Australia)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Liaqat Ali (Peshawar)

F.43- ROLE OF MICRONUTRIENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF PERSISTENT DIARRHOEA - A COMPARATIVE STUDY. Suleman Malik , Shaukat Ali- Paediatric Medicine, Nishtar Hospital, Multan, Pakistan.

F.44- VITAMIN A STATUS IN THE KUWAITI NEWBORNS AND THEIR MOTHERS. Ayesha Molla1, Abdul Majid Molla, Mazeda Sabry Hamoud, Wasfi Abdul Jalil And Prem Sharma- 1. Dept. of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences & Nursing & Dept. of Paediatrics, Faculty of
Medicine, Kuwait University.

F.45- SERUM ZINC LEVEL IN CHILDREN WITH MALNUTRITION. Tahir Masud Ahmed, Muhammad T. Mahmood Allama lqbal Medical College Lahore.

F.46- MONITORING THE AVAILABILITY OF MICRONUTRIENT IODINE IN THE IODIZED SALT. Muhammad Saleem, Shahid Riaz,& Amjad Ali - Nutrition Division, National Institute of Health, Islamabad.

F.47- ZINC STATUS IN CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION (ARI), IN SEVERE PROTEIN ENERGY MALNUTRITION (PEM) AND IN SEVERE PEM ASSOCIATED WITH ARI. Salim Shakur, MA. Malek - BICH,Dhaka Shishu Hospital, INFS, Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

FREE COMMUNICATIONS VIII: PROTEIN - ENERGY MALNUTRITION-I (1400-1530)

CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Decker Butzner (Canada)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Tahir Masood Ahmed (Lahore)

F.48- COOPERATIVE BASED HEALTH AND NUTRITI0N EXPERIMENTS: COMILLA EXPERIENCES.
Hasan Sarwar - Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD), Comilla, Bangladesh.

F.49- PROBLEM OF UNDERNUTRITION. Ms. Pakayanathan Chandra. Director (Retd) . Institute of Social Pediatrics, Stanely Medical College, Chenai, India.

F.50- SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY OF MID ARM CIRCUMFERENCE IN DETECTING PROTEIN ENERGY MALNUTRITION IN 6-12 MONTHS AGE GROUP. Harmesh Singh , Puneet A. Pooni, R.C. Bhatia, Daljit Singh. Department of Pediatrics, Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab India.

F.51- A HIGH DENSITY DIET FOR SHORT TERM REHABILITATION OF SEVERE MALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN. D.S. Akram , Fatima Yousuf, Tajammul Hussain. Department of Paediatrics, Unit-I, Civil Hospital, Karachi.

F.52- IMPACT OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS ON NUTRITION OF RURAL PEOPLE: A CASE OF SIX PROGRAM VILLAGES. Hasan Sarwar . Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD),
Comilla, Bangladesh.

F.53- URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCES IN THE NUTRIENT INTAKE OF PAKISTANI CHILDREN. Rubina Hakeem1, Jane Thomas2 and S. Badruddin3- 1. Rana Liaqat Ali Khan College of Home Economics, Karachi; Department of Food and Nutrition; 2. Kings College London; 3. Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi.

FREE COMMUNICATIONS IX: MICRONUTRIENTS-II (1600-1715)

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Khwaja Abbas (Islamabad)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Riffat N. Ashraf (Lahore)

F.54- PATTERNS OF PONDERAL AND LINEAR CATCH-UP GROWTH, CHANGES IN INSULIN LIKE GROWTH FACTORS AND THE EFFECT OF ZINC SUPPLEMENTATION IN SEVERE PROTEIN ENERGY MALNUTRITION. Conor. P. Doherty, M. Kashem Sarkar, M. Salim Shakur, Wiliam. A. Cutting, Simon. C. Ling. Dept. of Child Health, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland and Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

F.55- EFFECT OF ADOPTION OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES ON MICRONUTRIENT MALNUTRITION IN BANGLADESH. Nazmul Hassan,. Institute of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

F.56- ZINC STATUS BY ESTIMATING HAIR AND SERUM ZINC IN SEVERELY MALNOURISHED BANGLADESHI CHILDREN. Salim Shakur, M.A. Malek- BICH Dhaka Shishu Hospital; Institute of
Nutrition & Food Science Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

F.57- MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES IN N.WF.P. I.H. Paracha1 , A.Hameed2 , A.Jamil3 - 1. Department of Food and Human Nutrition, NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar; 2. Department of Paediatrics, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar; 3. Directorate of Health, Peshawar.

FREE COMMUNICATIONS session X: PROTIEN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION-II (1600-1730)

CHAIRPERSON: General (Retd.) C.M. Anwar (Rawalpindi)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Salim Shakur (Bangladesh)

F.58- BEAN PROCESSING FOR COMMUNITY BASED COMPLEMENTARY FOOD COMPOSITION. Dolline Busolo (Mrs.) - Nutrition Action Network, P.O Box 51884, Nairobi, Kenya.

F.59- ABSORPTION OF MACRONUTRIENTS AND NITROGEN BALANCE IN CHILDREN WITH DYSENTERY FED AN AMYLASE TREATED ENERGY DENSE PORRIDGE. Mohammad M.Rahman, George J. Fuchs, Mohammad Ali, Ramendra N. Mazumder, Mohammad A. Wahed, Dilip Mahalanabis - International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Mokhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.

F.60- EFFECT OF ENERGY DENSE DIET ON CLINICAL COURSE OF ACUTE SHIGELLOSIS IN UNDERNOURISHED CHILDREN. Ramindra N. Mazumder, Hassan Ashraf, Syed S. Hoque, Iqbal Kabir,
Naseha Majid, Mohammad A. Wahed, George J. Fuchs, Dilip Mahalanabis. International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.

F.61- ADOLESCENT NUTRITION IN A RURAL COMMUNITY IN BANGLADESH. Khurshid Talukder , M. Q. K. Talukder, A.K.M. Shahabuddin, M.Q. Hassan, Abdul Manan - Four villages in Rupganj Thana Narayanganj District, Bangladesh.

F.62- STUDIES ON THE UTILIZATION OF LEGUMES AS MAJOR PROTEIN SOURCE IN COMBATING MALNUTRITION IN BANGLADESH. M. Azizur Rahman , Principle Scientific Officer, Institute of Food Sciences and technology, BCSIR, Dr. Qudrat-e-Khuda Road, Dhaka-1205, Bangladesh.

F.63- FOOD REFUSAL, MORBIDITY ENERGY INTAKE AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF MIDDLE AND UPPER SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASS OD CHILDREN IN URBAN DHAKA. M. Asirul Hoque , Salamatullah Quazi, Rashid Mamunar, and Bhuiyan H. Maqbul- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Closing Session

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Shaukat Raza Khan (Lahore)
CO-CHAIRPERSON: Prof. A.G. Billoo (Karachi)

Congress summary and prospects for the future - Prof. Shaukat Raza Khan (Lahore)
Address by the Secretary CAPGAN - Dr. Peter Sullivan (UK)
Remarks by the Chairman, IVTH Commonwealth Congress - Prof. A.G. Billoo ( Karachi)
Remarks by the Organizer VTH Commonwealth Congress
Vote of thanks and closing remarks - Prof. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta (Karachi)
Official Closure of the Congress