29 May 2023

Celebrating the WHA76 Resolution For Safe And Effective Food Fortification

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. 

11 May 2023

WHA76 Side Event - Accelerating Efforts for Preventing Micronutrient Deficiencies and their Consequences through Safe and Effective Food Fortification

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.

4 April 2023

FORTIFYING OUR FUTURE: COMING TOGETHER TO SUPPORT THE WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION ON FOOD FORTIFICATION

4 April 2023

Fortifying our Future: Coming together to support the World Health Assembly Resolution on Food Fortification: Key Takeaways

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’.

3 February 2023

WHA DRAFT RESOLUTION ON 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.

17 January 2023

IF Webinar 'Preventing Birth Defects and Saving Lives: Folic Acid-Preventable Spina Bifida, Anencephaly'

6 January 2023

Join the Call to Action for a WHO Resolution on Prioritising Mandatory Food Fortification with Folic Acid

14 December 2022

World Folic Acid Awareness Week 2023

1 September 2022

IF Statement: A call for a global action to reduce the prevalence of Neural Tube Defects worldwide

With a new IF statement, The International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IF) is calling for urgent action demanding universal mandatory food fortification with vitamin B9 (folic acid) to reduce the risk of Spina Bifida, Anencephaly, or Encephalocele, also called Neural Tube Defects (NTDs).