CM/Res.1640 (LXIII)
RESOLUTION ON THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE CONTROL OF MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES
The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Sixty-Third Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 26 to 28 February, 1996,
Having considered the Report of the Secretary-General on the control of Vitamin A and Iron Deficiencies (Doc. CM/1928 (LXIII),
Aware that Vitamin A and Iron deficiencies affect numerous citizens of all Member States,
Mindful of -the adverse effects Vitamin A and Iron deficiencies have on the health, especially infants, pre-school children, pregnant and lactating women, and of the severe consequences of Iron deficiency on learning capacity and work- output,
Considering further that Vitamin A and Iron deficiencies are nutritional disorders for which techniques of prevention, treatment and control are available and affordable:
TAKES NOTE of the Report of the Secretary-General;
CALLS upon Member States to:
strengthen Primary Health Care systems by incorporating measures to control Vitamin A and Iron deficiencies;
strengthen all public education policies by establishing nutrition education in curricula at all levels of schooling;
incorporate the role of private food processing companies and suppliers into the planning and implementation of all national policies for the control of micronutrient deficiencies;