Anaemia is the most prevalent nutrition problem affecting over 273 million children under 5 years of age. About half of the anaemic children are iron deficient. Prevalence of anaemia in Burundi was 61% in 2017; greater than WHO critical anaemia threshold of 40% for a public health problem (increasing from 45% in 2010). In 2009, anaemia was the leading cause of blood transfusion in hospitals with 80.41%. Burundi introduced the home fortification program using multiple micronutrient powders-MNP since the end of 2016 whose aim is to prevent iron deficiency and reduce the prevalence of anaemia in children 6 to 23 months aged.
Since the roll out of the program, no studies have been conducted to answer if multiple micronutrient powders supplementation…
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