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Micronutrients

Delivering the critical ingredients we all need to survive and thrive.

The right nutrition at the right time builds the capacity to dream, it fuels the power to achieve, and it lays the foundation for lifelong health and development.

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Vitamin A

Vitamin A helps boost immunity and protects children under five from…

Supplementing children under 5 with two doses of vitamin A per year reduces their chance of dying, the incidence of diarrhoea, and the chances of child stunting which can impact lifelong health.

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Iodine

Iodine helps a child’s brain develop properly.

Iodine consumption is critical for pregnant women and children to ensure full brain development and protection against mental impairments. Adding iodine to salt reduces global iodine deficiencies.

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Iron

Iron is essential for healthy immune systems and sufficient energy levels.

Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world, particularly affecting women and girls. Iron has a key role in early brain development, productivity, and safe pregnancies.

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Folic Acid

Folic acid helps prevent life-altering birth defects.

Ensuring that women and girls have access to folic acid through supplementation and fortification helps to protect them from anaemia and protects their babies from neural tube defects.

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Zinc

Zinc and low-osmolarity oral rehydration salts prevent child deaths due to…

Diarrhoea is a leading cause of child mortality. Zinc and low-osmolarity-oral rehydration salts are a highly effective, low-cost treatment for diarrhoea that saves lives.

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Blog

Ensuring children can continue to access life-saving vitamin A during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Global Alliance for Vitamin A provided some guidance as to how governments can continue to distribute vitamin A safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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