From: Forest Brown (fbrown_at_PIC-ONLINE.com)
Date: 10/30/00
Message-ID: <3725ED182E9FD411B5CC00902764F85312B272@SERVER4> From: Forest Brown <fbrown_at_PIC-ONLINE.com> Subject: REMOVE Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:37:01 -0600
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From: Patrick Salsbury [mailto:salsbury_at_sculptors.com]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 3:44 PM
To: domesteading_at_sculptors.com
Subject: Re: Vitamin A, revisited
Here's that other article I was mentioning.
It's from USA Today, July 26, 2000, p. 9D
Gates grant funds study of vitamins, kids' lives
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given Johns Hopkins
University a five-year, $20 million grant to study whether inexpensive
vitamin and mineral pills can help save lives in poor countries.
Alfred Sommer, dean of the Baltimore university's School of Public
Health, will be the principal investigator in the study. His research has
found that giving young children in developing countries vitamin A
supplements reduces their death rate by as much as 30%.
Sommer's finding has led to programs in more than 70 countries to
combat vitamin A deficiency, which can cause blindness and susceptibility
to fatal diseases. Hopkins researchers have begun to study the role of
other nutrients.
The grant will finance research into the combination of nutrients
that will most efficiently protect children and women.
Studies will be conducted in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Ghana and
Zanzibar, Sommer says.
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Pat
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