This article from Nicholas Kristof for the New York Times explains how the lack of key micronutrients such as folic acid (aka vitamin B9), iodine, zinc, iron and vitamin A in developing countries is causing deformities due to neural tube defects, as well as brain malformation, anemia and blindness.  The good news is that micronutrient deficiencies is one of [...]

Celebrated New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has traveled extensively through West Africa as the benefactor of the newspaper’s “Win-a-Trip” contest, a program that gives students the opportunity to join him on an international reporting trip. Today, his column focused on the broken maternal health system he has observed in Sierra Leone, the country with [...]