Clinical eye signs are estimated to affect 5–10 million children annually in the developing
world. Thus most experience with large-scale prophylaxis programs has been with periodic …

A quarter of century has passed since FRI published its first comprehensive review on
vitamin A deficiency (VAD) and its prevention. At the time, the major impetus to prevent VAD …

Approximately 8 to 10 million new cases of xerophthalmia due to vitamin A deficiency occur
each year, with as many as ½ to 1 million children developing potentially blinding corneal …

Vitamin A deficiency is still considered a major nutritional problem in the developing world.
Increasing evidence of the role of vitamin A in the control of both morbidity and mortality is a …

Since the early 1980s, when it was first realised that children with the eye signs of vitamin A
deficiency (VAD) had a higher mortality rate than children in the same communities who did …

The prevention of vitamin A deficiency has emerged as one of the most important public
health efforts of the past century. The observation that vitamin A supplementation reduces …

It was the consensus among all meeting participants that their conclusions concerning
vitamin A supplementation should be understood as applying to populations in countries or …

In developed countries, food fortification has proven an effective and low-cost way to
increase the micronutrient supply and reduce the consequences of micronutrient …

Aimed at development planners and students of nutrition, public health, anthropology, and
human cultural ecology, this book discusses issues surrounding the use of natural sources …

Vitamin A deficiency is a public health problem in more than 75 countries and affects as
many as 228 million children subclinically at a severe or moderate level. Some 3.1 million …