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Helen Keller International
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Assessment of the prevalence of anemia, nightblindness and rickets
- Nutrition Surveillance Program and Homestead Food Production Program
- Various monitoring and evaluation activities as well as numerous publications regarding micronutrient deficiencies
- Research regarding the risk factors for anemia among adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh
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Yes
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Micronutrient Initiative
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- Increasing coverage of VAS, particularly among the hard to reach/unreached population.
- Financial support for the national campaigns.
- Oil fortification underway.
- Upgrading of salt plants to improve quality of iodization and coverage.
- Innovative pilot to provide Iron and folate tablets to adolescent girls.
- Plans for research to fill gaps in zinc research
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Yes
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BRAC
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- A study was conducted to compare the efficacy of Sprinkles and iron-folic acid (IFA) tablets during pregnancy.
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Yes
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Social Marketing Company
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- Social marketing of ‘Sprinkles’ with the objective of popularizing the concept of home fortification of complementary child foods i.e. rice, semovita, mixed food etc. and based on a gradually increasing ‘cost-recovery’ model (starting with only commodity cost recovery, with vision of full cost recovery), create a sustainable mass market at the national level.
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Yes
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Save the Children
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- Micronutrient deficiency prevalence assessment and monitoring
- Supplementation programs
- Public health interventions
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Yes
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WFP Asia
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- Study to determine the losses in micronutrients in Atta (at mill and household levels), and in Fortified Blended Food (at factory and household levels)
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No
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United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition 