Maternal and infant undernutrition is the underlying cause of almost half of all deaths in children under five.1,2 When healthy diets are out of reach and malnutrition threatens lives, nutrition programs and public health supplementation are cost-effective ways to reach vulnerable women and children.
These initiatives help provide them with the essential nutrients they need from preconception through childhood.3 Nutrient-dense solutions, such as Ready-to-Use Supplementary Foods (RUSFs), have the potential to save and change lives by supporting adequate nutritional intake at these critical stages of development.
Fortified blended foods
like Super Cereal and Super Cereal Plus are typically made from cereals and grains enriched with micronutrients and widely used as food aid.4
Ready-to-Use Supplementary Foods (RUSFs)
are convenient, energy-dense, micronutrient-enriched pastes that address moderate acute malnutrition, supporting many children during critical growth periods.1,2
Small quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS)
help provide children aged 6+ months with energy, protein, essential fatty acids and micronutrients. They can be directly eaten or mixed with foods at home.1,2,3,4
Multiple Micronutrient powders (MNPs)
can be sprinkled over homemade or school meals without affecting taste, consistency or appearance, to address nutritional deficiencies in babies and children.1,2
Multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS)
in formats from tablets to capsules have the potential to save lives – especially those of women and children – and improve birth outcomes.
To help close the micronutrient gap for 800 million people by 2030, we bring our scientific insight, technical know-how and industry-leading solutions. Yet global multistakeholder action remains critical to the success of these efforts.
Nigerian children across 17 states have received vital, life-saving micronutrients through a national micronutrient powder program we spearheaded with UNICEF.
in Rwanda have been fed through our joint initiative with Africa Improved Foods (AIF), which also provided enriched porridge for mothers and children.
pregnant women and their newborns could benefit from our push to advance global MMS programs under the public-private Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Accelerator.1
runs nutrition programs and builds viable social business models with our support, to benefit vulnerable individuals in Rwanda, South Africa, India and Bangladesh.
helps strengthen the healthcare system in the Philippines together with us, by improving last-mile demand and supply of multiple micronutrient supplements.
Tailored to the needs of local communities in the developing world, our fully customizable solutions are safe and cost-effective in combating malnutrition and hidden hunger. We also dedicate our world-class scientific and technical support to co-create exceptional solutions. Since 2008, millions of our MNPs have supplemented the diets of children aged between six months to five years globally.1
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1 UNICEF, UNICEF Data: Child Nutrition, 2023.
2 Sight and Life, Special Report: Focusing on Multiple Micronutrient Supplements in Pregnancy, 2023
3 World Food Programme, Why WFP uses Specialized Nutritious Foods, 2019.
4 BioAnalyt, Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) – What Are They and What Can iCheck Do?, 2020.
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