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82 WHAT'S NEWEach Task Force is finalizing its specific terms of referenceas well as an action plan and many are doing this at the sametime as beginning to deliver on specific projects.Sight and Life is represented on Task Force B by Jane Badham.We will ensure that we give regular updates on the variousSUN activities, as its aim is to be transparent and include asmany stakeholders as possible.SUN is currently consolidating and building stakeholderalliances and aligning donor commitments with country-ledplans for improving nutrition. In a recent article by DavidPelletier et al, published in Health Policy and Planning(2011;1–13) and entitled “Nutrition agenda setting, policyformulation and implementation: lessons from the MainstreamingNutrition Initiative”, the authors highlight the realitythat we face. While undernutrition is the single largest contributorto the global burden of disease and can be addressedthrough a number of highly efficacious interventions, ingeneral it has not received commensurate attention in policyagendas at global and national levels. Implementing theseefficacious interventions at a national scale has also provendifficult. This is an important fact that has to be consideredand overcome as SUN rolls out at a country level.setting, policy formulation, capacity building for operations,and all other aspects of a long-term nutrition agenda atcountry level.> These conclusions are especially relevant for major globalinitiatives currently under development that seek to addressnutrition through country-led processes and convergencebetween multiple organizations.> The extensive investments in documenting the efficacy ofnutrition interventions are unlikely to produce sustainablereductions in undernutrition unless or until these weaknessesin the policy spectrum are better understood andaddressed.SUN and the 1,000 Days movement are the start of alarger movement that hopes to address these real globalnutrition issues by focusing attention, aligning and increasingresources, and building partnerships. The SUN must shineif nutrition is to take its rightful place and deliver to alleviatethe suffering caused by undernutrition among millions ofpeople around the world – especially pregnant women andchildren under two years of age.Key messages include:> Strengthening the full spectrum of policy activitiesis necessary if large-scale and sustained reductions inundernutrition are to be achieved.> Within this policy spectrum, high priority should be givento strengthening strategic capacities because these arefundamental to advancing commitment building, agendaComing soon will be a SUN websitewatch for the link from www.sightandlife.orgnd Life and Vitamin AngelsImproving Lives in India03erSight and Life and the non-profit organization Vitamin Angels, live in India, making addressing vitamin A deficiency inwhose mission is to mobilize and deploy private sector resourcesto advance availability, access and use of vitamin A micronutrient deficiencies. While the Government of IndiaIndia a critical component of the global challenge to eliminateby newborns, infants and children most in need, have recentlysigned a Memorandum of Understanding. The partnership a large proportion of infants, children and lactating womenfully supports initiatives for vitamin A supplementation andwill work together to build on their individual strengths to receive supplementation, there remains a significant portionfoster local ownership of the problem of vitamin A deficiency of the population that has yet to be reached.in India, and catalyze a locally sustainable supply and distributionsystem in India.technical expertise and Vitamin Angels’ successful implemen-“Through this partnership, Sight and Life’s advocacy andFifty-one percent of the 190 million children under five tation of universal vitamin A supplementation projects aimwho suffer from moderate and severe vitamin A deficiency to reach millions of those in India who have to date not
SIGHT AND LIFE | VOL. 25 (1) | 2011WHAT'S NEW83had access to life-saving vitamin A,” says Dr Klaus Kraemer,Director of Sight and Life.In signing this Memorandum of Understanding, both partnershope to engage other international and Indian for-profit,not-for-profit and government entities. The aim is to mobilizesupport and participate in this initiative, in order to harnessinnovative public-private partnerships to sustainably tacklethe vitamin A deficiency epidemic in India and improve thelives of millions of infants, children and women.For more information on Vitamin Angels go towww.vitaminangels.orgUNICEF Workshop on Scaling Up the Useof Micronutrient Powders to Improve the Quality04lementary Foods for Young Childrenand the Caribbean04AmericaPeruvian children are among those to be impactedby plans to scale up MNPsIn June 2011, UNICEF and the US Centers for Disease Controland Prevention (CDC) co-hosted a four-day workshop inMexico to discuss the role of micronutrient powders (MNPs)in improving the quality of complementary feeding in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean and to support countries in theirplans to introduce and scale up MNP programs. Extensiveresearch shows that MNPs are safe, efficacious, acceptable,easy to use and do not alter the taste or appearance of food.MNPs are particularly useful to improve the quality of complementaryfoods prepared at home. Based on current evidence,MNPs can easily and cost-effectively be administered underprogrammatic conditions and implemented at scale. Successfulpublic health scale-up of MNPs does require that they areintegrated within Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)and Early Child Development (ECD) programs. Under theseconditions, MNPs have the potential not only to improve themicronutrient content of complementary food and decreasethe burden of anemia, but also to improve complementaryfeeding and care practices of young children that will, in turn,lead to better growth and development outcomes for youngchildren.Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)are poised to scale up the use of MNPs as part of integratedIYCN and ECD strategies. Furthermore, a unique aspect of theLatin American experience is the use of MNPs as part of an integratedpackage of services included under social protectionschemes such as Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs toreduce social inequities.The comprehensive workshop covered relevant topics,including the current status of MNP interventions in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean; the evidence base for MNPs;relevant recommendations regarding MNPs; MNPs in nationalpolicies; MNPs integrated in nutrition strategies; the design ofMNP interventions; MNPs and other interventions to improvemicro-nutrient intake; choice of MNP formulation; target⇢
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