by Garry Wiley | Oct 25, 2017 | News
The ground-breaking results from a clinical trial of a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) product made without milk or animal source protein and undertaken in Malawi in 2016, were unveiled by VALID Nutrition’s Founder, Dr Steve Collins, at the IUNS 21st International Conference on Nutrition (15th – 20th October 2017). The Soy-Maize-Sorghum (SMS) based recipe has been in development for over ten years, involving three large randomised controlled clinical trials and considerable investment from several stakeholders including Japan’s International Cooperation Agency, the Global Innovation Fund, Irish Aid and the PRANA Foundation.
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by Garry Wiley | Oct 25, 2017 | News
Having produced 8.5 million sachets of ready-to-use therapeutic food product in 2016 (enough to treat approximately 80,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition) and after launching a new ready-to-use complementary food line in November 2016 to tackle chronic malnutrition, VALID Nutrition is now seeking grant funding to complement loan funding and expedite our move to a new state-of-the-art, purpose built manufacturing facility. This in turn will enable the expansion of local production capacity to meet both regional and local demand.
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by Garry Wiley | Oct 25, 2017 | News
From 6th- 8th October, Ashoka Ireland hosted their 4th Annual Community Retreat. This was a gathering of Ireland’s Ashoka Fellows (including our own Dr Steve Collins), the Irish Ashoka Support Network members, advisors and the Irish Team, and was held on the grounds of Burrishoole, Co Mayo. The workshops involved an analysis of the more unique social entrepreneurial challenges facing Ashoka Fellows both in Ireland and in a global context, and put to work the collective experience of everyone in attendance.
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by Garry Wiley | Mar 14, 2017 | Annual Reports
Download the Valid Nutrition Annual Report 2016.
by Garry Wiley | Nov 28, 2016 | News
VALID Nutrition is pleased to announce that on Friday 18th November, the Honourable Dr Peter Kumpalume, MP and Minister for Health, Malawi, formally launched our new Ready-to-Use Complementary Food (RUCF also called small quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement, LNS-SQ) in Lilongwe. Read more
