Vitamin A Deficiency -- Zambia

Zambia

Vitamin A

Iron

	EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA


Clinical Vitamin A Deficiency
Most Recent Clinical VAD Survey: No survey reported.

Sub-clinical Vitamin A Deficiency

Most Recent Sub-Clinical VAD Survey:

Date:

Not reported.

Groups Surveyed:

children under five years

Sample Size:

1500

Sampling Method:

Not reported.

Estimated Prevalence of VAD:

Region/Group	Sample size	Population in region/group (if available)	Indicator(s) specify cutoff and/or median serum retinol	Prevalence in sample %

Children under five years	1500		20ug/dl	65.7

Legislation on VAD
	There is VAD legislation in Zambia. It was passed in 1998. It states that packaged sugar should be fortified with vitamin A at a level of 10mg/kg.
	There have been no documents published stating the national policy regarding VAD.

Government Agency to Address VAD
	The National Food and Nutrition Commission. This agencies function is both coordination and monitoring.
	Contact Information: Not reported.


Supplementation
Program Description
	Vitamin A supplementation is done biannually.
	There is a policy to address vitamin A supplementation for mothers within 8 weeks of delivery.


Capsule Information
	200,000 IU: 4,928,000 capsules imported
	100,000 IU: 1,100,000 capsules imported

Implementation -- Not reported


Estimated Number of People Supplemented -- Not reported
Fortification
	Sugar is fortified at 10mg/kg. About 30% of the commodity is fortified.
	About 209.3 MT ('000s) are produced annually.

Other Programs - Dietary Change
	There are community-based programs to promote improved vitamin A status through dietary change.

Clinical and Sub-clinical VAD
	Not reported.

Supplementation
	The number of capsules produced/imported is monitored. *
	Coverage of the supplementation program is monitored. *
	* - It was not reported how the monitoring is done.


Fortification
	Fortification of sugar is monitored. *

Total VAD Program Funding History and Forecast for Country -- Not reported.

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA