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The World Health Organization, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the Micronutrient Initiative, will convene a meeting titled Multiple micronutrient supplements in pregnancy: implementation considerations for successful incorporation into existing programmes in
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), in partnership with Devex, has launched the Future Fortified online series. The series investigates how food fortification can prevent many of the health and nutrition challenges that burden developing countries.
The ICNFS 2015: 17th International Conference on Nutrition and Food Sciences will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to share experiences and research results, and discuss the most recent innovations, practical challenges, and
Although Nigeria has had a mandated food fortification policy since 2002, a study last year concluded that only 30 percent of products in markets contained required levels of micronutrients.
The Lucky Iron Fish Project has introduced a simple and effective tool to increase dietary iron intake without using iron pills: a small metal fish—a symbol of luck in Cambodian culture—that, if used properly during cooking, can provide 75 percent of an adult's daily recommended intake of iron, a
The “Hb Meter,” a new mobile app field tested by Africare’s Mwanzo Bora Nutrition Program, is the first non-invasive test for anemia that detects hemoglobin levels using a mobile phone’s camera flash.
In December 2012, the SPRING project hosted an Agriculture and Nutrition Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (AgN-GLEE) event entitled Strengthened and Sustainable Linkages among Agriculture, Economic Growth and Nutrition in Kampala, Uganda.
This news item highlights the importance of targeting adolescent girls, as we strive to reduce global rates of anemia and reach the World Health Assembly target to reduce anemia by 50 percent in women of reproductive age by 2025.
Fortifying staple foods—maize, flour, and edible oils—is a cost effective intervention to tackle malnutrition and reduce life threatening conditions and diseases.
Knorr, the biggest brand of the multinational consumer goods company Unilever, unveiled its commitment to help Nigeria reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia, a major public health issue. It will work to make cooking iron-rich foods more desirable, easy to understand, and affordable.
Feed the Future worked with health professionals in Honduras to better understand the causes of anemia and identify appropriate preventative measures by conducting household visits to observe feeding and hygiene behaviors. They found that parasitic infection is likely a major cause of anemia.
Based on new study results from the Micronutrient Initiative, the Bangladesh Government re-committed to strengthening its iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation program to protect pregnant women from anemia and their newborns from complications.
Iron-biofortified varieties of commonly consumed staple crops have the potential to contribute to the daily iron requirements in diets and thus reduce iron deficiency among children and women in developing countries.
Biofortification is a viable strategy to improve the nutritional status of populations dependent on staple food crops for sustenance.
Scientists at CGIAR have found 30 new types of beans that are tolerant to heat, and could ensure sustained production in Africa and Latin America.
The government of India has launched the world's largest national school-based deworming effort to date, targeting 140 million children twice a year in 11 states with presumed high levels of soil transmitted helminths and once a year to 100 million children in other states.
Developed by USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program and the President’s Malaria Initiative, this program brief describes World Health Organization recommendations to prevent malaria and iron-deficiency anemia during pregnancy, with an emphasis on giving the correct dose of folic acid to avoi
Industrial fortification of staple cereals, fats, and oils has been successful in decreasing the burden of micronutrient malnutrition.
Research shows that antenatal iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation improves maternal anemia and poor pregnancy outcomes, and may also have an effect on child survival.
This study assessed prenatal hemoglobin levels on early child psychomotor development. It found an inverted U-shaped relationship between prenatal hemoglobin at first and second antenatal care visit and infant gross motor function.