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.
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.
Field Stories February 13, 2015 Listening in for good nutrition: Celebrating World Radio Day World Radio Day is celebrated on February 13 every year and the Micronutrient Initiative knows how important radio is to getting nutrition messages out to families and communities.
Blog Posts February 6, 2015 Celebrating Canadian Global Nutrition Success This week, hundreds of members of the Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) will gather in Montreal to talk nutrition, and celebrate 50 years as a growing industry in Canada.
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.
Field Stories November 25, 2013 Seeking treatment for diarrhoea closer to home in Senegal This DS-DOM pilot project is just one part of the larger ZACH project in Senegal, which is accelerating the use and awareness of this effective zinc treatment.
Field Stories 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.
Field Stories November 23, 2012 Dr. Marion Roche: Thinking Inside the Box to Save Children’s Lives in Guatemala For the next year, Dr. Marion Roche, MI's Technical Advisor for Behaviour Change Communication, will be talking about something most of us don't want to hear about – diarrhoea.
Field Stories November 6, 2012 Tackling diarrhoea in Senegal with ORS and zinc: a life-saving combination ZACH is a unique partnership created to develop and sustain diarrhoea treatment programs using zinc supplementation in combination with ORS.
Field Stories August 5, 2011 Child Health Weeks in Haiti: bringing essential health services to those in need Over the first two weeks in July, trained health workers fanned out across Haiti to provide families, especially those with young children, with preventive health services.
