Reducing child mortality through vitamin A in Nepal

Global Importance

100

Percentage of all-cause maternal mortality from vitamin A deficiency

20%

300

What are Two of the Three causes of vitamin A deficiency in Nepal?

Difficult terrain, poverty, and unequal distribution of food within families

500

500

Vitamin A deficiency is estimated to be responsible for nearly one fourth of global child mortality from (condition), (condition), and (condition)

Measles, Diarrhea, and Malaria

Intervention

100

NVAP stands for 

National Vitamin A Programme

300

Who supports NVAP, and how often do they provide their supplements

UNICEF and USAID and twice a year

500

Name the two impacts NVAP has done

- Prevents blindness in approximately 2,000 children each year

- reduce by about half the mortality rate for children under 5 years of age 

Cost and effectiveness

100

Answer one! (Estimate!) 

1) Cost per death everted 

2) Cost per disability adjusted life-year gained

1) $327–US $397 per death averted 

2) $11–$12 per DALY gained

300

The cost of delivering 2 rounds of vitamin A to one child is

$1.25 (Very cost effective!)

500

The NVAP produced cost SAVINGS for the Ministry of Health by preventing what? (be specific)

Severe episodes of diarrhea and measles

CPGH trivia

100

The four advisors for CPGH

Hailey, Dr. Maring, Angshuman, Wesley, 

300

The location of our upcoming field trip

National Gallery of Art Museum

500

who won the constitutional debate

maternal health