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Should universal distribution of high dose vitamin A to children cease?
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Should universal distribution of high dose vitamin A to children cease?
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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ’s policy on declaration of interests and declare the following: JBM, CSB, and HPSS have no competing interests, KPW Jr, ACP, and AS receive academic programme support and periodic gratis supplement manufacture for intervention trials have been provided by the multinational science company DSM through the Sight and Life Foundation to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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