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.
Field Stories June 29, 2015 Mentorship program builds capacity by supporting Pharmacy student in Ethiopia Esete Zewge, a pharmacy graduate student at the Addis Ababa University School of Pharmacy, wants to help solve this problem through her focus on the logistics of distributing critical medications.
Blog Posts June 25, 2015 Maternal and child nutrition: What about men? We urge all who work in global health to recognize the important role of men and fathers and address the need for more inclusive maternal and child health policies and programs that engage men.
Blog Posts June 11, 2015 Program success is a blend of research and on-the-ground experience I have always wondered why micronutrient deficiencies, or other global nutrition problems, have been so difficult to eradicate when the right motivation and plentiful resources to do so are available.
Blog Posts June 4, 2015 New focus on reducing anaemia in adolescent girls Recently, the World Health Assembly set out new global nutrition targets. One such ambitious goal is to see a 50% reduction of anaemia in women of reproductive age by 2025.
Blog Posts May 29, 2015 Better births in Bangladesh When women receive daily iron and folic acid (IFA) supplements as early as possible during pregnancy for at least 90 days, it can help reduce anaemia and provide newborns a better chance at life.
Blog Posts May 28, 2015 Scaling up leadership: What links Senegal, Germany and Ethiopia in the global fight against malnutrition? There's something exciting happening in global health and development that has the potential to impact millions of the poorest people in the world: the acceleration of global leadership on nutrition.
Field Stories May 25, 2015 “I am converted”: Birthing access to safer deliveries in Kenya Irene Omurunga was reluctant to give up her role as a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) in Mumias West, Kakamega County in Kenya.
Field Stories May 22, 2015 The mechanics of nutrition in Senegal It is ten o'clock and the sun already spreads its warm rays over Lac Rose. From the shore, one can hear the clamor of salt harvesters singing at work since sunrise.
Blog Posts April 24, 2015 Understanding the cycle of poverty and malnutrition $1.75 at a time I am proud to work for the Micronutrient Initiative - an organization working for the world’s most vulnerable who don’t have access to the nutrition. I am taking the Live Below the Line Challenge.