"What a Little Vitamin A Could Do" Nick Kristof, The New York
Times columnist, reports on his travels with HKI and
specifically our work with vitamin A supplementation. As Kristof
notes, "Americans pretty much take vitamin A for granted, but
many of the world's poorest people lack it. And as a result, it
is estimated that more than half-a-million children die or go
blind each year. There's a simple fix: vitamin A capsules that
cost about 2 cents each." Vitamin A supplementation not only
reduces blindness, but also death from diarrhea and other
diseases; it has been named a one of the most cost-effective
health interventions by the Copenhagen Consensus.