My boss was in town the past few days for a meeting we had in Port-au-Prince. We stayed at a really nice hotel with a pool and great drinks...all on the CNP! The food left a lot to be desired from a vegan’s standpoint, but since there was a pool it didn’t really matter.
We had an all day meeting on Friday with Save the Children, Concern, UNICEF, and the Haiti Ministry of Health to get the Plumpy’nut project underway. Plumpy’nut is a peanut butter based ready-to-use therapeutic food used to rehabilitate malnourished children that has been shown to work better than the therapeutic milk (F100) which we currently use in the hospital. Plumpy’nut is already being used by some organizations in Haiti but with very different treatment protocol so we're hoping to standardize it's use for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition and use the data collected over the 6-month trial to inform policy chance in the national protocols (currently undergoing revision) for treatment of malnutrition in Haiti. I'm pretty excited to be a part of the project. I was so hungry during the meeting due to the lack of vegetables at lunch that all the talk about Plumpy’nut was making me salivate!!
