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Field Stories

November 27, 2013

"Want your child healthy and smart? Just consume iodized salt!" Indonesia

Adding iodine to salt provides protection from brain damage due to iodine deficiency for whole populations.

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Field Stories

June 25, 2013

Souleymane the Senegalese salt-repreneur

Souleymane was struggling to make ends meet in Dakar, Senegal and decided to return to his home community of Ndiémou to try his hand at salt harvesting.

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January 28, 2013

Harmonizing salt iodization levels in West Africa

In order to facilitate the regional trade and distribution of iodized salt, MI teamed up with UNICEF to engage the UEMOA Commission in harmonizing the salt iodization levels among its countries.

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June 21, 2012

South-to-South mentoring: stepping up salt iodization to improve health in Africa

For three years, the Micronutrient Initiative (MI) has been facilitating the cross-sharing of program experiences between salt processors in Africa to help build and sustain salt iodization.

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March 7, 2012

Pushing health outcomes and gender roles in Pakistan

In Pakistan's Sindh and Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa provinces, two women are working to improve the health of 6.3 million people.

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February 15, 2012

Laxmi salt: adding wisdom to a simple staple in India

On a busy street in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India, Jagdish Keshaubhi Prajapati is running his chakki (salt crushing machine) at Laxmi Salt.

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October 13, 2011

Multi-level advocacy leads to huge breakthroughs in salt iodization in Ethiopia

When H E Hassen Abdulkadir was posted as Ethiopian Ambassador to Senegal, he never expected to become so interested in producing and iodizing salt.

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August 29, 2011

Strengthening the salt industry in Bangladesh: MI and BSCIC

When salt iodization was introduced in the early nineties and made mandatory in Bangladesh, it was a natural fit to make BSCIC the focal point for iodization efforts.

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August 5, 2011

Child Health Weeks in Haiti: bringing essential health services to those in need

Over the first two weeks in July, trained health workers fanned out across Haiti to provide families, especially those with young children, with preventive health services.

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June 15, 2011

GIS: improving health & lives in Pakistan by monitoring iodized salt

Imagine a tool that could help significantly reduce preventable brain damage, caused by a lack of iodine in the diet, by monitoring the quality of iodized salt produced.

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