0830-1000 

National Successes in Micronutrient Programming

Moderators: Dr. Jose Mora, Dr. Gulden Pekcan

Overview

Dr. Jose Mora

Nigeria's Universal Salt Iodization Program Success Story: The Process and Lessons Learned

Dr. Dora Akunyili

Nicaragua's Integrated Anemia Control Strategy (IACS) Has Significantly Reduced Anemia in Women and Children

Dr. Erick Boy

Vitamin A Supplementation for Child Survival in Niger: Maintaining Success in Adversity

Dr. Noel Marie Zagre

The Challenge of Shifting from Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) Campaign to Delivering a Package of Key Interventions during "Mother and Child Health Week"

Dr. Simon Rakatonirina

The Experience of the Nepal Vitamin A Program: A Platform for Scaling-up Community-based Health Interventions

Dr. Ram Shrestha

Common Elements of Successful Programs

Dr. Phil Harvey

1100-1200 

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Tipping point #1: Zinc and Childhood Mortality

Moderators: Dr. Olivier Fontaine, Dr. Kadriye Yurdakok

Effects of Zinc Supplementation on Mortality in Children 1-48 Months of Age: A Community-based Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial

Dr. Sunil Sazawal

Impact of Daily Zinc Supplementation on Preschool Child Mortality in Southern Nepal

Dr. James Tielsch

Comments

Dr. Juan Rivera

1200-1300 

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Special Session: Cost Analysis as a Tool for Micronutrient Program Planning, Budgeting, Management, and Advocacy

Dr. Jack Fiedler

1400-1510 

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Assessment and Evaluation

Moderator: Dr. Frank Wieringa

Introduction

Dr. Frank Wieringa

Assessment of Iodine Status Using Dried Blood Spot Thyroglobulin: Development of Reference Material and Establishment of an International Reference Range in Iodine-Sufficient Children

Dr. Michael Zimmermann

Recommendations for the Assessment of Population Zinc Status: Results of a WHO, UNICEF, IAEA, and IZiNCG Working Group Meeting

Dr. Christine Hotz

Nicaragua's Integrated System for Monitoring of Nutritional Interventions (SIVIN): An Analysis of the First Three Years of Implementation

Dr. Jose Mora

Vitamin A and Other Major Micronutrient Deficiencies in China

Dr. Xiaoguang Yang

Six-monthly Augmented Vitamin A Supplementation from 1 to 6 Years of Age: Block Randomized Trial in One Million Children in Northern India

Dr. Shally Awasthi

1600-1640 

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Iodine Deficiency: An Update on Global Progress and Monitoring

Moderators: Dr. Dora Akunyili, Dr. Murat Erdogan

New WHO Recommendations for the Prevention and Control of Iodine Deficiency in Pregnant and Lactating Women and in Children Less Than Two Years Old

Dr. Bruno de Benoist

Global Progress towards Sustained Elimination of Iodine Deficiency: Lessons from Salt Iodization Programs and Monitoring

Dr. Nune Mangasaryan

Assessment of Household Use of Adequately Iodized Salt in Population Surveys is Best Achieved by a Combination of Testing by Rapid Salt Test Kits and Quantitative Methods

Dr. Karen Codling

1640-1740 

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Tipping point #2: Newborn Dosing with High Dose Vitamin A

Moderators: Dr. Shyam Thapa, Dr. Yildiz Perk

Effect of 50,000 IU Vitamin A Given to Newborns and Infants in Guinea-Bissau, West-Africa

Dr. Christine Stabell Benn

Efficacy of Newborn Vitamin A Supplementation in Reducing Infant Mortality in Rural Bangladesh: The JiVitA-2 Trial

Dr. Rolf Klemm

Newborn Vitamin A Dosing: Policy Implications for Southern Asia and Africa

Dr. Keith P. West, Jr.