Throughout the world, children who are vitamin A deficient are at increased risk of disease and early death. Vitamin A supplements are a cost-effective way to improve child health and for over 20 years, MI has supported this established child survival program.
Coura Ba, a young mother in Senegal, explains first-hand how vitamin A supplements provide a boost to her children’s immune systems. Watch as her daughter receives her life-saving vitamin A supplement at a health centre in Thienaba, Senegal. That vitamin A was one of more than eight billion doses supplied by MI, and is part of how we work to break the generational cycle of malnutrition.
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