Message-ID: <s233e8b2.058@jsi.com> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 09:48:13 -0400 From: Project OMNI <mailto:omni_project@JSI.COM> Subject: MICRONUTRIENT PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
******OMNI NEWS FLASH********OMNI NEWS FLASH*******OMNI NEWS ************************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************MICRONUTRIENT PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE
OMNI has available a limited number of older publications on various aspects of global micronutrient activities. Many of these documents were developed through the VITAL project. Although some are several years old, we feel that they still can provide important information to organizations, governments, projects and individuals involved in the elimination of micronutrient malnutrition globally. Every week we will make different documents available. They are available on a first come first serve basis.
1. MICRONUTRIENTS: INCREASING SURVIVAL, LEARNING, AND ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY
In the United States vitamins and minerals are making headlines as evidence grows that they reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, and other chronic ailments. The technologies that enable the United States the provide this kind of health protection can be adapted and transferred to developing countries, where approximately 800 million people go hungry and childhood deaths far overshadow those due to chronic disease.
This is a brief report on the USAID micronutrient program, published in 1993 and available only in English.
2. WORLD DECLARATION AND PLAN OF ACTION FOR NUTRITION
This document represents the culmination of an historic process by which over 1300 delegates from 159 nations came together in Rome in December 1992 at the International Conference on Nutrition (ICN), the first global intergovernmental conference on nutrition in over two decades. The World Declaration reflects the pledge of member countries, non-governmental organizations, and the international community to eliminate or reduce substantially--within this decade--starvation, widespread undernutrition, and micronutrient malnutrition which constrain progress in human and societal development around the world. The Plan of Action for Nutrition provides a framework to go about achieving these objectives, drawing on the recommendations for policies, programs, and activities which emerged from an intensive pre-conference consultative process.
The source of this document was the International Conference on Nutrition, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization Joint Secretariat for the Conference, 1992. ***************************************************************************** OPPORTUNITIES FOR MICRONUTRIENT INTERVENTIONS (OMNI) is funded by the Office of Health and Nutrition of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, D.C. and managed by John Snow, Inc. OMNI's mission is accomplished by developing integrated, comprehensive programs and strategies to reduce and eliminate major micronutrient deficiencies throughout the developing world. Participating countries are based on their micronutrient malnutrition problems, commitment by local officials (public and private) to micronutrient activities, and their capacity to achieve and sustain a demonstrable impact. ****************************************************************************** OMNI is located at 1616 North Fort Myer Dr, Suite 1100, Arlington, Virginia 22209 USA - Tel: 703 528-7474 - Fax: 703 528-7480 E-mail: mailto:omni_project@jsi.com WWW: http://www.jsi.com/intl/omni/home ****************************************************************************