Support is critical to Overcoming Anaemia: Vivian's story
"While the anaemia journey is a hard one, the presence of a strong support system to help navigate these hard times is a critical part of full recovery" W omen with adequate nutrition are more productive and can create opportunities to gradually break the intergenerational cycles of malnutrition. Despite the vast investment in nutrition, adolescent girls and women whose lived experiences prove the socioeconomic limitations brought by malnutrition still exist. Today, we share Vivian's story. For a while now, I have been having various mild iron deficiency symptoms, which I hardly took note of. However this year in March everything escalated to unbearable levels. I was constantly bleeding, which caused a drastic decrease in my iron levels. This led to constant dizzy spells, always feeling tired amongst other symptoms. As a result, I took some days off work, which was not ideal but very necessary. However, with multiple visits to the doctor, which were kind of traumatising,...