HMHB Event: Accelerating Integration of Prenatal MMS
This event is on June 30, from 6:45-7:45 AM EDT | 12:45-1:45 PM CET
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Accelerating the Integration of Prenatal Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation (MMS) into Antenatal Care Services
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies side event at the 2022 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health (ANH) Academy
This event will focus on how MMS, as an evidence-based, cost-effective intervention, can improve mothers' and newborns' nutrition and health outcomes and provide an opportunity to integrate nutritional interventions into antenatal care more broadly. More information about the background of the HMHB side event can be found here.
The event will be hosted by Dr. Martin Mwangi, Program Lead, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies. Speakers and topics will include:
- Maternal nutrition: scope and scale of the issue – Dr. Martin Mwangi, Program Lead Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, Micronutrient Forum
- Implementation research approach – Ashutosh Mishra, Vitamin Angels
- Advocacy & situational analysis, Cambodia – Hou Kroeun, Helen KeIler International Cambodia
- Implementation research – Mali – Adama Mamby Keita, Jhpiego
