A New Measure of Egg Consumption and the Effect of Social Marketing Eggs

A Two-Phase Study to Investigate Novel Biomarkers of Egg Consumption and Social Marketing Effectiveness of Egg Hubs for Malawian Infants

About 1600 children 6 to 24 months old will be enrolled from 8 egg hubs. 4 hubs will be receive social marketing campaign to raise awareness about the benefits of eggs while the other 4 will not receive social marketing campaign. Children will provide a urine sample for analysis of metabolites to correlate with egg consumption.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Health children between 6 and 24 months of age

Exclusion Criteria:

• acute malnutrition
• congenital abnormalities
• chronic debilitation disease such as heart disease, cerebral palsy, or HIV infection