At every life stage, micronutrients are crucial to immune system function and resilience to infectious disease.
This brief makes the case for large scale staple food fortification as a critically important tool to fight malnutrition in general, and even more so during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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It provides evidence that the pandemic is adversely impacting large scale food fortification programs in low- and middle-income countries and outlines recommended actions to meet these challenges and to sustain and strengthen fortification programmes.
Read the full brief on the GAIN website.