“West Africa has made more progress in food fortification than anywhere else on the continent except possibly South Africa,” said Shawn Baker, West Africa regional director of the non-governmental organisation Helen Keller International (HKI).
However “it is important not to oversell it,” he emphasised. “Large-scale food fortification is not going to solve all the region's problems, but the levels of deficiency in West Africa are huge and I think the large-scale programs like this do nonetheless help in making an overall reduction.”
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