Events April 11, 2016 Global Alliance for Vitamin A reviews future of vitamin A in sub-Saharan Africa GAVA discussed the future of vitamin A supplementation for sub-Saharan Africa.
Field Stories October 15, 2015 “Zinc and ORS saved my child’s life” A training session for frontline health workers is underway in Shivpuri, a quiet village in the Kishanpur block of Supaul district in Bihar, India.
Blog Posts October 8, 2015 Vitamin A: a little hero on World Sight Day World Sight Day, I’m struck by how much Canadians have already contributed towards one key aspect of eye care – preventing blindness - through vitamin A.
Field Stories September 29, 2015 Shobha’s story: How her daughter was helped by the local ASHA Shobha Devi, a homemaker in the Salkhua village of Saharsa district in Bihar, India, is busy cleaning the house, her one-year-old daughter, Shrishti, is comfortably perched on her hip.
Field Stories September 23, 2015 MI reaches underserved rural communities in Ethiopia For the past nine years, Tibeltalech Kifle has been a Health Extension Worker (HEW) in South Gondar, in the Amahara Regional State of Ethiopia.
Field Stories September 15, 2015 Innovation in the supply chain of zinc and ORS, in Bihar, India Making sure essential drugs and services reach people who need it and when they need it is a challenge, especially in the eastern state of Bihar, India, where resources are limited.
Blog Posts August 20, 2015 Is there more than one window of opportunity to improve children’s nutrition? In the past decade or so, people who work to improve the nutrition of women and children have focused on the “1000 day window of opportunity”.
Field Stories July 6, 2015 Ethiopia: Access to zinc and ORS help families fight diarrhoea For Fatuma and her neighbours, having zinc and oral rehydration salts (ORS) in the community could be life-saving.
Blog Posts March 24, 2015 Building bodies and brains in Burkina Faso I am watching her while she is waiting at the community health centre with her 18- month-old son to get him measured and receive a month supply of multiple micronutrient powders (MNPs).
Blog Posts March 16, 2015 Nourishing Women on International Women’s Day March 8 is International Women’s Day. I would also like to celebrate how micronutrient interventions have the potential to enable women to continue to be strong, brilliant, and safe.
