• It Takes a Village: Transforming Futures through Education and Health

    Vitamin Angels provides proven nutrition solutions and essential support to program partners, including governments, across 65 countries to enhance access to health and nutrition services for pregnant women, infants, and children in underserved communities.  Our program partners have earned the trust and respect of their communities by seeking to understand and innovatively meet their needs.…

  • Indonesia revamps its pregnancy supplements to improve maternal health

    This article was originally published on Devex. Click here to see the full piece. Last fall, Indonesia announced it was transitioning away from providing iron folic acid, or IFA, to pregnant women and instead offering the United Nations International Multiple Micronutrient Antenatal Preparation, or UNIMMAP, also referred to in this article as simply MMS. The…

  • Calditos and Counseling: Insights into Complementary Feeding Practices in Mexico

    In the communities of Oaxaca, Mexico, calditos are a major component of many young children’s diets. Caregivers rely heavily on them, but these water-based broths are low in nutrients compared to meat, eggs, and beans.  This was one of my team’s findings in a recent study we conducted in three regions in Oaxaca: Valles Centrales,…