Saving lives and improving the health of women and children in India.
Through key interventions, such as vitamin A supplementation, fortified salt, and iron and folic acid supplementation, we help to improve health and nutrition of women, children and adolescent girls.
Despite its rapid economic growth, India faces the enormous challenge of providing optimal nutrition to its 1.3 billion people.
Malnutrition has severe effects on India’s children under five:
Anemia continues to be a significant public health concern:
There is a critical need to address the burden of malnutrition in the country by scaling up core nutrition interventions.
Together, we’re improving women and children’s health through nutrition interventions for women, adolescent girls and young children.
For more than 20 years, Nutrition International has been working in India alongside government ministries to strengthen and address the country’s nutrition challenges.
Through a multi-pronged approach focusing on planning, supply chain management, capacity building, behaviour change communication, monitoring, review and evaluation we aim to improve the survival and health of those who need it most, especially women, adolescent girls and young children. Key interventions aimed at strengthening the existing health, nutrition and food systems include:
Get in touch.
Country Director, India
Mini Varghese
Email: mvarghese@NutritionIntl.org
Nutrition International India
B-28, 2nd Floor
Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi – 110016, India
Telephone: + 91 11 4686 2000
Fax: + 91 11 4686 2048
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