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2025 Global Nutrition Progress: Highlights from Around the World
Progress to improve maternal and child nutrition takes many forms: new policies adopted, funding secured, health systems strengthened, and communities better equipped to support the health of women and young children. Around the world, Vitamin Angels works alongside governments, partners, and communities to build trust and momentum, deepen impact, and transform evidence into action.
From policy commitments to expanded service delivery, from research projects to climate-responsive innovation, Vitamin Angels and our collaborators supported efforts to improve nutrition in countries around the world.
Find a selection of highlights from around the world in 2025 below.
Uganda
Pregnant women in Uganda receive Vitamin Angels prenatal vitamins and minerals.
Building on years of advocacy and implementation research, Vitamin Angels supported the country’s official commitment to transition from iron folic acid (IFA) to MMS nationwide – an important step forward in improving maternal nutrition throughout the country.
Vietnam
Pregnant with her first child, Hong (left) received MMS from a midwife at her local health center, supported by Vitamin Angels.
Vietnam achieved a policy milestone with the passage of the Law on Disease Prevention, making MMS a mandatory maternal health intervention. Through leadership in the MMS Technical Working Group, co-established with the Vietnam National Institute of Nutrition, Vitamin Angels helped secure formal government approval to integrate MMS into Vietnam’s maternal and child health care package, establishing a strong legal foundation for long-term sustainability and national implementation guidelines.
Bhutan
The Vitamin Angels team with government officials and health sector partners in Bhutan.
Vitamin Angels partnered with the Ministry of Health and high-level government officials to strengthen the national MMS program for pregnant and breastfeeding women. This support included year-round MMS availability, standardized monitoring, structured national reviews, and phased capacity-building initiatives.
Mexico
Vitamin Angels is working to improve complementary feeding practices in Mexico – supporting nutrition among children aged six months to two years.
Together with key stakeholders in Oaxaca, Vitamin Angels conducted research to improve complementary feeding practices for children aged six months to two years. Using the learnings from this research, our team worked with partners to begin co-designing a social and behavior change strategy on child feeding for health workers and caregivers.
Haiti
Rutchilia Bleus, Vitamin Angels Haiti Program Coordinator, holds the Serge Toureau Award.
Vitamin Angels was recognized by Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population with the Serge Toureau Award for exemplary work providing children with evidence-based nutrition interventions, including vitamin A supplementation.
Democratic Republic of Congo
A scene for a vitamin A supplementation campaign for children under five in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo Credit: Herman Kambala/Vitamin Angels/Fairpicture 2023.
Through leadership in the Vitamin A Supplementation and Deworming (VAS+D) Technical Working Group, Vitamin Angels supported updated guidelines, strengthened government training tools, promoted local production efforts, and secured approval to integrate albendazole, an effective deworming treatment, into routine child health services. The organization also launched a national VAS+D Landscape Analysis to inform future policy updates and sustainable implementation of routine VAS+D to improve children’s health across the country.
Kenya
A pregnant woman stands in front of a maternal and child health center in Kenya.
In partnership with the government of Makueni County, Vitamin Angels provided critical support to begin the introduction and scale up of MMS, helping to support healthier pregnancies and improved birth outcomes.
India
Rohit, 4, and his mother Jeremiya share a smile during a vitamin A distribution campaign supported by Vitamin Angels.
In collaboration with 50 partners, including state governments and NGOs, the organization delivered more than 7 million doses of vitamin A and deworming across 8 states to support child nutrition. Vitamin Angels’ teams strengthened government partnerships to improve maternal anemia management in Uttar Pradesh and vitamin A coverage in Nagaland.
Philippines
In the Philippines, Vitamin Angels is providing mothers with community-based nutrition support.
Mothers received training on nutrition, breastfeeding, and child feeding through community-based Barangay First 1,000 Days programs, with support from Transforming Lives Through Nutrition, a consortium with Vitamin Angels, Helen Keller Intl, and iDE with funding from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
United States
A mom of three children in Hawaii
Through our strategic partnerships, we distributed 550,000 bottles of MMS to support healthier pregnancies across all 50 states.
Indonesia
Vitamin Angels supports millions of women and children across Indonesia with climate-responsive nutrition solutions.
Vitamin Angels initiated Climate-Inspired Nutrition Through Action (CINTA), a new five-year program to strengthen climate-resilient health systems and expand access to maternal and child nutrition across Indonesia. Built on a robust partnership network that includes the Ministry of Health of Indonesia, academic institutions, local and global manufacturers, and NGOs, the organization will train hundreds of thousands of health workers and deliver climate-responsive nutrition solutions to millions of nutritionally-vulnerable women and children.
Nigeria
Pregnant women stand together, proudly showing off their MMS bottles.
The National MMS Taskforce, with support from Vitamin Angels, put together a new report that summarizes efforts to introduce and scale up MMS to date and identified key recommendations for what’s next. It’s just one part of the progress that’s being made thanks to collaboration with partners.
Lasting progress on nutrition is achieved through true collaboration among diverse partners and innovative, agile approaches. Through our support for national policy developments, stronger health systems, and expanded access to proven interventions, Vitamin Angels reached 74 million women, infants, and young children in 2025. In the months and years ahead, we are committed to deepening our impact and helping women and children not just survive, but thrive.