Africa - Nutrition International

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.

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”.

Blog Posts

July 16, 2015

Trade and Aid: creating winning conditions for nutrition

The Ministry of Trade in Senegal and MI recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of providing more people in West Africa access to adequately iodized salt.

Blog Posts

July 16, 2015

Address by MI President Joel Spicer at the launch of the Government of Ethiopia’s Seqota Declaration

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

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 6, 2015

Breastmilk is the safest food

Exclusive breastfeeding to the age of six months, with continued breastfeeding to the age of two and beyond, is a child’s first vaccine.

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MI reaches underserved rural communities in Ethiopia

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

Trade and Aid: creating winning conditions for nutrition

Address by MI President Joel Spicer at the launch of the Government of Ethiopia’s Seqota Declaration

Ethiopia: Access to zinc and ORS help families fight diarrhoea

Mentorship program builds capacity by supporting Pharmacy student in Ethiopia

Scaling up leadership: What links Senegal, Germany and Ethiopia in the global fight against malnutrition?

“I am converted”: Birthing access to safer deliveries in Kenya

The mechanics of nutrition in Senegal

Breastmilk is the safest food