Nutrition Wing, Ministry of Health

Nigeria - Social Marketing, Capacity Building, Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Fortified foods The goal of this programme is to significantly reduce VAD and IDA resulting in blindness, lowered immunity to infections and anaemia amongst low income families with infants, underfive, and women of reproductive age and other at risk population through Universal vitamin A and iron fortification of wheat and maize flour, vegetable oil and sugar. This goal will be achieved if the incidence of vitamin A deficiency amongst U5 children is reduced from 25% to 20%, and anaemia from 27.8% to 22% between 2004 - 2009. To do this 10 flour mills producing 80% of Nigeria's flour will fortify the flour with vitamin A and iron reaching 100% of the poor and deficient population in Nigeria.

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wheat flour is used to make chapatis in Pakistan

Pakistan - Wheat Flour Fortification The goal of the program is to save lives and to improve the health, nutrition, productivity and cognitive function of vulnerable population groups. The program’s purpose is to reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia among preschool aged children (from 36% to 10%) and women of reproductive age (from 50% to 18%) and to halve the occurrence of Neural Tube Defects (NTDs) among newborns (from 0.4% to 0.2% of live births), through the universal fortification of wheat flour with iron and folic acid in Pakistan.

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