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June 26, 2013

MI’s biggest zinc program is reducing diarrhoea-related deaths in India

Renu Kumari is an ASHA, an Accredited Social Health Activist volunteer, and is part of a major movement to save lives throughout Bihar, India.

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January 21, 2013

School girl turns mentor for out-of-school girls to help reduce anaemia levels in India

Nikhat Praveen is now a role model and peer guide to out-of-school girls in her village on iron and folic acid supplementation to help address anaemia.

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November 18, 2012

India District administrators' innovativeness channels efforts to reduce adolescent anaemia

In 2010, the prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls in Chhattisgarh was at 85 percent among school-going girls and 89 percent among out-of-school girls.

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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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February 15, 2012

Reaching the hard-to-reach in Bangladesh with vitamin A

While vitamin A coverage is high in Bangladesh, in many areas with over 90 per cent coverage with two doses, some children are still being missed.

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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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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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May 5, 2011

Changing lives by awarding the Punjab’s Best Iodized Salt Processors

Safwan Hashmi proudly accepted the 2010 Best Salt Processor of the Year Award, on behalf of National Foods Limited, at the annual awards ceremony to recognize the Punjab's best salt processors,

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November 26, 2010

Vitamin A supplementation for newborns in Nepal

At first glance, this photo portrays a simple scene: a mother in Nepal giving something to her day-old child.

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