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Field Stories

October 15, 2015

“Zinc and ORS saved my child’s life”

A training session for frontline health workers is underway in Shivpuri, a quiet village in the Kishanpur block of Supaul district in Bihar, India.

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Blog Posts

October 8, 2015

Vitamin A: a little hero on World Sight Day

World Sight Day, I’m struck by how much Canadians have already contributed towards one key aspect of eye care – preventing blindness - through vitamin A.

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Field Stories

September 29, 2015

Shobha’s story: How her daughter was helped by the local ASHA

Shobha Devi, a homemaker in the Salkhua village of Saharsa district in Bihar, India, is busy cleaning the house, her one-year-old daughter, Shrishti, is comfortably perched on her hip.

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Field Stories

September 23, 2015

MI reaches underserved rural communities in Ethiopia

For the past nine years, Tibeltalech Kifle has been a Health Extension Worker (HEW) in South Gondar, in the Amahara Regional State of Ethiopia.

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Field Stories

September 15, 2015

Innovation in the supply chain of zinc and ORS, in Bihar, India

Making sure essential drugs and services reach people who need it and when they need it is a challenge, especially in the eastern state of Bihar, India, where resources are limited.

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Blog Posts

August 20, 2015

Is there more than one window of opportunity to improve children’s nutrition?

In the past decade or so, people who work to improve the nutrition of women and children have focused on the “1000 day window of opportunity”.

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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.

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Blog Posts

March 24, 2015

Building bodies and brains in Burkina Faso

I am watching her while she is waiting at the community health centre with her 18- month-old son to get him measured and receive a month supply of multiple micronutrient powders (MNPs).

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Blog Posts

March 16, 2015

Nourishing Women on International Women’s Day

March 8 is International Women’s Day. I would also like to celebrate how micronutrient interventions have the potential to enable women to continue to be strong, brilliant, and safe.

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Blog Posts

March 10, 2015

Iron Women Forge the World

On International Women’s Day, we were encouraged to reflect on the power of women and the need to ensure that women around the world are positioned, supported and poised to meet their full potential.

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