Howarth Bouis presents methods to reduce vitamin A deficiency
Channel: Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Date: 19/09/2012

Virtual briefing__ Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a major public health concern in poorer countries and accounts for more than 600,000 deaths a year among children under five years of age. Biofortified orange sweet potato (OSP) may help to alleviate VAD according to new research by HarvestPlus.

Howarth Bouis, Director at HarvestPlus, and Daniel O. Gilligan, Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI, offer a detailed presentation of how the use of OSP in Uganda and Mozambique can improve the situation of children with VAD.