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. 2013 Jun 11;10(6):e1001465. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001465

Figure 2. Selection process of nutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and health policies from low- and middle- income countries.

Figure 2

The WHO classification of regions and allocation of countries was used. AFR, African Region; AMR, Region of the Americas; EMR, Eastern Mediterranean Region; EUR, European Region; SEAR, South-East Asia Region; WPR, Western Pacific Region. Mayotte, West Bank and Gaza, the Republic of Kosovo, and American Samoa. *Antigua and Barbuda, Egypt, Dominica, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Sao Tome and Principe, Dominican Republic, Micronesia, Gabon, Tonga, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Algeria, Iraq, Lithuania, Palau, Marshall Islands, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkmenistan, and Comoros. §Policy issued before 2004: Belize, Venezuela, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eritrea, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, Albania, Armenia, Burundi, Ecuador, El Salvador, Kiribati, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Zimbabwe, Somalia, United Republic of Tanzania, and Vanuatu; policy not officially endorsed: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, and Tuvalu; no policy : Chad, Congo, South Africa, and Tajikistan; policy was available but could not be publically distributed: Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Tunisia; policy reported to be available [26] but could not be obtained: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.