Events May 18, 2016 Right Start Initiative to scale-up nutrition for 100 million women and girls Right Start Initiative launched by MI to improve access to nutrition for 100 million women and girls worldwide.
Blog Posts March 24, 2016 Integrating nutrition interventions in Bangladesh through BRAC partnership Our expert explains a new MI collaboration with BRAC that aims to systematically design and integrate nutrition interventions into existing BRAC development programs in Bangladesh.
Events December 4, 2015 Address by MI President and CEO Joel Spicer at launch of Ek Sahi Shuruat in India MI President and CEO Joel Spicer launches major MI initiative, Ek Sahi Shuraut, to improving the lives of over 17 million women, adolescent girls and children in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Field Stories November 16, 2015 Saving lives through better diarrhoea treatment: accomplishments in Bihar and Chhattisgarh Since 2009, MI has been working in two of India’s high-burden states, Bihar and Chhattisgarh, to ensure that children suffering from diarrhoea get treated with zinc and oral rehydration salts (ORS).
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.
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.
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.
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 June 4, 2015 New focus on reducing anaemia in adolescent girls Recently, the World Health Assembly set out new global nutrition targets. One such ambitious goal is to see a 50% reduction of anaemia in women of reproductive age by 2025.
Blog Posts May 29, 2015 Better births in Bangladesh When women receive daily iron and folic acid (IFA) supplements as early as possible during pregnancy for at least 90 days, it can help reduce anaemia and provide newborns a better chance at life.