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This manual presents the steps to carry out the technical supervision and inspection in wheat mills, as well as inspection visits at any retail store selling fortified foods.
This document summarizes the importance of mass food fortification and provides the reader with step-by-step instructions for designing and implementing fortification programs.
This is the summary report from an interagency consultation that was held in Washington DC, on July 7, 2006.
During her presentation “Building Nutrition Capacity of Health Workers” at the 15th annual
The A2Z Project collaborated with the Institute of Food Technologists to conduct an assessment of rice fortification in China, Costa Rica, the Philippines, and the United States.
This study was carried out to help develop a more evidence-based fortification program in Uganda.
Uganda, like many other developing countries, suffers from a significant burden of iron, vitamin A, and zinc deficiencies. Additionally, iron deficiency anaemia affects almost 50 percent of children between 6 – 23 months of age and 30 percent of women of reproductive age.
On March 15th, 2015 in Nsinze Sub-Country, Namutumba District, Uganda’s Ministry of Health—in conjunction with Namutumba District leadership, SPRING, World Food Programme, and UNICEF—launched a pilot program to imp
On behalf of USAID, SPRING organized a Micronutrient Powders (MNP) Consultation on October 19
Iodine deficiency is a major global public health problem, particularly for young children and pregnant women. This technical brief discusses the key barriers to global iodine deficiency disorder control.
Despite the remarkable effects of zinc supplementation, public health planners have been slow to embrace zinc-related interventions. This technical brief focuses on the existing gaps in information needed to design large-scale programs to enhance zinc nutrition.
At the close of SPRING's fourth year of implementation, we influenced global health and development communities through thought leadership around multi-sectoral nutrition programing.
The SPRING project in Bangladesh continued to scale up its work to integrate essential nutrition and hygiene actions into government-sponsored projects and build nutrition capacity among frontline
SPRING launched its Ghana country office, which focuses on improving delivery of high-impact services and generating increased demand for those services.
This webinar explored how the areas of potential convergence and tension create opportunities and challenges in the design and implementation of nutrition-sensitive agricultural market development activities. Participants discussed practical examples of ways in which tensions have been addressed…
SPRING/Uganda is implementing a micronutrient powder (MNP) program, focused on children aged 6 to 23 months.
The second annual Safollo Gatha, an event organized to celebrate the best practices of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) in health, population, and nutrition programs, was held on Thursday, March 27 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
In Haiti, SPRING closed out its office in Port-au-Prince after three years of successful implementation. The Haiti team focused on enhancing nutrition systems and building capacity for delivery of quality nutrition services.
We established an office in the Kyrgyz Republic and launched activities, including a baseline survey, formative research, and other critical analyses and trainings to build the capacity of over 7,000 people to del
This technical brief can serve as an advocacy tool, providing facts and talking points to lobby policy makers to increase political commitment to fighting maternal anemia.