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Morocco obtained a USD 2.92m grant from
the Global Alliance for Improved
Nutrition (GAIN) to counter iron
deficiency anemia and vitamin A and D
deficiency related problems among women
and young children.
This came in a press release in which
GAIN notes that this grant, spread over
three-year, allowed for launching a
project that will enable 50 mills to
produce flour fortified with iron, folic
acid and B vitamins, and major producers
of cooking oil to fortify their products
with vitamin A and D.
The project is expected to benefit
around 15 million Moroccans, says the
same source.
In Morocco, fifth country to obtain a
grant of such a scale from GAIN, iron
deficiency anemia affects about a third
of women in childbearing age and
children under five, according to GAIN
document.
At least a third of young children in
Morocco also suffer from vitamin A
deficiency, which kills some 1,500
children each year, it says.
The large-scale project aims, thus to
eliminate vitamins A and D deficiencies,
as well as iodine deficiency by 2010.
The non-profit Swiss foundation aims at
contributing, by 2007, to the
improvement of the nutritional status of
at lease 600 millions people in 40
developing countries. |
