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Article: Zimbabwean gov't working on program to population against vitamin deficiencies
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 21, 2004
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Zimbabwean gov't working on program to population against vitamin
deficiencies
HARARE, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwean Minister of Health and
Child Welfare David Parirenyatwa has said the government was working
on a program to the population against vitamin and
mineraldeficiencies, which "remain a major public health problem" in
the country.
Minister Parirenyatwa was quoted by local media as saying on
Sunday that the exercise was being done together with the
NationalTaskforce on Staple Food Fortification.
"Millions of Zimbabweans, especially women and children, are
suffering from brain damage, intellectual impairment, lowered immune
and increased susceptibility to infection due to vitamin ...