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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.

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November 12, 2014

Anaemia epidemic: we are neglecting adolescent girls' nutrition

As we approach the deadline for the 2015 Millennium Development Goals I am concerned that we are not doing enough to reach a critical demographic: adolescent girls, particularly with good nutrition.

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Field Stories

October 1, 2014

MI’s approach to treating childhood diarrhoea in India: awareness, treatment and supply

Vibha Bharti hopes the thousands of women who visit her health centre about 20 kilometres outside the village of Ghatkusumbha in the Bihar state get to her before the rainy season.

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June 26, 2013

MI’s biggest zinc program is reducing diarrhoea-related deaths in India

Renu Kumari is an ASHA, an Accredited Social Health Activist volunteer, and is part of a major movement to save lives throughout Bihar, India.

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January 21, 2013

School girl turns mentor for out-of-school girls to help reduce anaemia levels in India

Nikhat Praveen is now a role model and peer guide to out-of-school girls in her village on iron and folic acid supplementation to help address anaemia.

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Field Stories

November 18, 2012

India District administrators' innovativeness channels efforts to reduce adolescent anaemia

In 2010, the prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls in Chhattisgarh was at 85 percent among school-going girls and 89 percent among out-of-school girls.

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February 15, 2012

Laxmi salt: adding wisdom to a simple staple in India

On a busy street in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India, Jagdish Keshaubhi Prajapati is running his chakki (salt crushing machine) at Laxmi Salt.

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Field Stories

November 26, 2010

Vitamin A supplementation for newborns in Nepal

At first glance, this photo portrays a simple scene: a mother in Nepal giving something to her day-old child.

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Field Stories

September 21, 2010

Double Fortified Salt: Smartening and strengthening a school lunch in India

On the map it's hard to locate Melakidaram, a tiny village in coastal Tamil Nadu, India, with less than a thousand households.

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Field Stories

June 21, 2010

Using zinc to save children’s lives in an emergency setting in India

In October 2008, large parts of the Indian state of Bihar were ravaged by floods due to a breach in the embankments of the Kosi river, affecting more than 4 million people.

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