This report highlights the successes of the global effort to eliminate iodine deficiency disorders as a public health problem. The report was commissioned as part of UNICEF-GAIN Partnership Project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2008 to 2015, to improve iodine nutrition through salt iodisation.
Adolescents embody the future – figuratively and, in the case of mothers, literally. If their nutrition status is poor, then nutrition throughout the lifecycle will be fragile. This report aims to address this issue in three ways.
This report presents findings from a market assessment of the presence and fortification level of vitamin A in all major brands of edible oil and vanaspati sold in Pakistan and potentially exported to Afghanistan that was undertaken to inform technical and programmatic decisions to support effective food fortification.
This summary report presents key findings and trends from nutrition landscape analyses undertaken across fourteen countries as part of the GSM Association Mobile for Development Nutrition Initiative funded by UK Department for International Development.