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Canada is recognized as a world leader in supplying micronutrients—essential vitamins and minerals—to children around the world. With CIDA's support, the Ottawa-based Micronutrient Initiative (MI) has distributed almost 6 billion vitamin A capsules to children in developing countries since 1998, contributing to lowering child mortality rates. Additionally, in 2009 alone, the MI, through its salt iodisation programs, protected more than 230,000 children from the risk of being born with mental impairment caused by iodine deficiency in their mothers.
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