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Global health is in a dire state. Annually, almost ten million children die before the age of five. The top four child killers are diarrheal disease, malaria, malnutrition, & upper respiratory infection. In the next 24 hours diarrhea, caused by unclean water & poor sanitation, will claim the lives of four thousand children. Two & a half billion people still have no access to even the most rudimentary latrine. More than one billion have no source of drinking water. It only costs $1 to vaccine against measles, yet one child dies of the disease every minute in Africa. Measles infects thirty to forty million children each year & kills over 410,000. Who is leading globally to address these problems? Adapted from the source document.

This article investigates the role of structure and agency in hunger reduction in India using the case study of the Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Project (TINP). The TINP was a World Bank-funded, state-run project that was initiated in 1980 to improve the nutritional and health status of preschool children, and pregnant and nursing women. Its primary purpose was behavioural change of mothers using the educational tools of growth monitoring, nutrition counselling and supplementary feeding. This paper argues that the predominant cause of undernutrition is not ignorance, but structural factors such as poverty and gender inequality that constrain women's agency. In addition, it examines the representation of the feminised 'mind' which is the point of interface between the state and the body.