In September 2006 SIGHT AND LIFE hosted a workshop with scientists from leading academic institutions and global organizations, including WHO, UNICEF, FAO, World Bank, World Food Programme, International Nutrition Foundation and The Micronutrient Initiative to develop solutions in the fight against nutritional anemia.
The workshop included an update on the magnitude of the anemia problem, its economic and functional consequences, basic scientific information on iron metabolism, the role of infections, detailed programmatic approaches and an overview of the safety and technical aspects of interventions. The book Nutritional Anemia provides an account of the information presented and comprehensively discussed at the workshop in Barcelona.
Building bridges to combat nutritional anemia
At BioVision 2007, the Life Sciences Forum, SIGHT AND LIFE presented the book Nutritional Anemia to leading representatives from UNICEF and the UN World Food Programme. The book aims to help fight the devastating health burden of nutritional anemia throughout the world. Nutritional Anemia shall be instrumental in helping to reach the Millennium Goals of the United Nations in terms of malnutrition and mortality.
"This textbook also serves as a guide for how government, international agencies and non-governmental organizations can work together to decrease rates of nutritional anemia worldwide," explains James T. Morris, Executive Director of the World Food Program in his foreword, describing the book as key to reducing overall hunger and malnutrition rates.
"This book is an important contribution reminding us that in order to reduce anemia, we need to recognize that no single intervention will solve the problem, but that the solution requires an integrated strategy of complementary interventions," said Kul C. Gautam, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the DSM - SIGHT AND LIFE special session at BioVision, in Lyon.
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