Reporting Organization: | Johns Hopkins University |
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Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 1,260,000 |
Timeframe: | March 22, 2012 - May 30, 2016 |
Status: | Completion |
Contact Information: | Unspecified |
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Bangladesh - $ 630,000.00 (50.00%) | |
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Zambia - $ 630,000.00 (50.00%) | |
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Nutrition (50 %) | |
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This project with Johns Hopkins University is to complete the last stage of testing for an innovative, field-friendly, cost-effective assessment method to detect vitamin a deficiency (VAD). The impacts of proving the validity of this device will have global implications through the ability to rapidly assess VAD in the field so as to monitor the impact of interventions and to target interventions to those most in need.
Gender and age: | Unspecified |
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Total Direct Population: | Unspecified |
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Return to topThe expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: increased use of the Portable Field Dark Adaptometer (PDFA) in a variety of population settings, including surveys, clinical centres, and monitoring and evaluation programs designed to prevent Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD); the PFDA system is adopted on a national scale to assess population Vitamin A status in Zambia and Bangladesh and implemented by local and national health programs.
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