Newsletter 02 2006.pdf - Sight and Life

SIGHT AND LIFE 2
NEWSLETTER 2/2006
Contents
The Nutrimad school feeding program:
Impact on failure rate and nutritional status of
schoolchildren in Madagascar 4
Reflections: Four decades with vitamin A and
carotenoids; James Allen Olsen Memorial
Lecture, CARIG, 2006 10
Carotene Research Interaction Group (CARIG)
Annual Conference 2006, San Francisco 18
13th European Meeting on Fat-Soluble
Vitamins 2006 in Jena 23
Protecting nutritional status and the role
of micro nutrient premix in the WFP’s
response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami 25
Distributing micronutrients and deworming
medicine in hurricane-ravaged Honduras 27
Eye care mission to the Dominican Republic,
March 2006 29
Update on the status of vitamin A deficiency
and xerophthalmia in children under five
treated at hospitals in Vietnam over a
27-year period (1979 – 2005) 30
Continuing nutrition education by the
Youth Volunteer Group, Nepal 31
The PACHE Trust health program and
women’s empowerment 32
An integrated nutrition, training and
education program 33
Knowledge and perception of vitamin A
deficiency in the villages of Burkina Faso 35
VAD and malnutrition among Sudanese
children admitted to an urban hospital 36
The fight against vitamin A deficiency at
Ouassa-Beket, Benin 36
Continued activity of the Ramala Women’s
Group 37
SIGHT AND LIFE visits Pohnpei, Micronesia,
and films a nutrition documentary 39
A digest of recent literature 41
Letters to the editor 49
Publications 51
Micronutrient Forum 53
SIGHT AND LIFE workshop
Nutritional Anemia 54
SIGHT AND LIFE, back cover
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