The deficiency in micronutrients: Iodine, Iron and Vitamin A, constitutes a public health problem in Haiti,So, although of all nutritional deficiencies, iodine deficiency is the easiest to prevent and eradicate in a very short period of time, around 5 years. The simple solution is to increase the consumption of iodized salt in 80% of the populationAlthough Haiti is a sea salt producer country, the iodine content in harvested salt remains below 15 ppm, while the WHO recommends an average concentration of 40 ppm ± 10 (i.e. between 30 and 50).Iron, like iodine, is a nutrient that goes into brain development from conception to 2 years of age. Iron deficiency anemia is the No. 1 contributing factor to maternal mortality in Haiti, which has the highest rate among countries in the Americas region. It is a debilitating condition that makes a person fragile and vulnerable to all kinds of infectious diseases by reducing their production potential. The EMMUS IV and V surveys show a high prevalence even among men (25%, a culturally favored group compared to the intra-family distribution of meals.Vitamin A deficiency, despite all the strategies and initiatives adopted and implemented by the MSPP has not regressed. It is, even after 38 years, a problem of the same magnitude. The distribution of the capsules has never been able to reach the figure of 50% despite all the efforts made by the MSPP and its financial and technical partners. The EMMUS V survey found that only 44% had access to Vitamin A capsules.On the strength of the increase in the cost of living and the galloping unemployment rate limiting access to quality food that can make it possible to fill the deficits related to a suitable food on the one hand and the degradation of the environment which reduces the micronutrient content of foods and other products in the food chain, on the other hand, the MSPP has adopted fortification to reach the general population while maintaining the other strategies already in place.
