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It is with great pleasure that we announce that The seventy-sixth World Health Assembly has voted to adopt the resolution WHA76.19 'Accelerating efforts for preventing micronutrient deficiencies and their consequences, including spina bifida and other neural tube defects, through safe and effective food fortification'. This is a tremendous achievement for the global SBH community. 

It is with great pleasure that we announce that The seventy-sixth World Health Assembly has voted to adopt the resolution “Accelerating efforts for preventing micronutrient deficiencies and their consequences, including spina bifida and other neural tube defects, through safe and effective food fortification”. This is a tremendous achievement for the global SBH community. 

Join IF in celebrating and raise awareness on the important draft WHA resolution for food fortification the government of Colombia is sponsoring alongside numerous co-sponsoring WHO Member States a side event to the WHA together with IF and a broad coalition of partners from public and civil society.

The webinar ‘Fortifying our Future: Coming together to support the World Health Assembly Resolution on Food Fortification’, was held on 4 April 2023. The webinar aimed to bring together a diverse coalition of advocates and stakeholders, such as experts in the fields of disability rights, neurosurgery, micronutrient malnutrition, food fortification, public health, and fortified food production to support the WHA food fortification initiative, as well as, to maximise the impact of the proposed resolution, ‘Accelerating efforts for preventing micronutrient deficiencies and their consequences, including spina bifida, and other neural tube defects, through safe and effective food fortification’.

It is with great pleasure that IF announces that the Executive Board of the WHO has voted to put the draft resolution “Accelerating efforts for preventing micronutrient deficiencies and their consequences, including spina bifida and other neural tube defects, through safe and effective food fortification” on the agenda of the seventy-sixth World Health Assembly.