Walgreens and Vitamin Angels Reach 200 Million Women and Children with Life-Changing Vitamins
September 10 2019 - 7:05AM
Business Wire
Walgreens and non-profit Vitamin Angels announced today that
they have supported more than 200 million women and children in the
U.S. and around the world through their partnership to improve
child and maternal health.
Approximately one-third of women in the U.S. experience iron
deficiency during pregnancy.1 And nearly one-third of women
residing in low and middle-income countries around the world do not
have access to basic health services and are at increased risk for
poor nutrition, including vitamin A deficiency2 and anemia.3
Walgreens and Vitamin Angels have worked together for six years
to raise funds to address these healthcare disparities:
- One percent of sales of participating vitamin products at
Walgreens support Vitamin Angels’ outreach efforts to communities
in need across the U.S. and globally.
- In January 2019, Walgreens held a ‘Quarter Drive’ customer
donation program, which resulted in an additional $1.5 million
raised to support Vitamin Angels work.
Walgreens and its parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA)
are committed to improving societal health and wellbeing around the
world.
“The strength of this partnership is our shared commitment to
accessible, affordable health care, and Walgreens ability to bring
this program to our customers in nearly every community
nationwide,” said Alex Gourlay, president of Walgreens and Co-Chief
Operating Officer of WBA. “Every child deserves a healthy
future.”
Vitamin Angels operates in 74 countries through a network of
over 1,600 field partners who provide health services and
nutritional support across the critical window of a child’s
development. These services include distributing prenatal
multivitamins and Vitamin A, promotion of breast-feeding practices
and deworming. Domestically, the organization works across every
state in the U.S. to support pregnant women’s health with prenatal
multivitamins and nutrition education.
“With the support of Walgreens, Vitamin Angels has been able to
reach millions of mothers and children under five at risk of
malnutrition with life-saving nutrients,” said Howard Schiffer,
founder and president of Vitamin Angels. “We are honored to be
partnering with an organization that cares so much about children
and moms in the U.S. and around the world.”
For more information on how you can support Vitamin Angels
through Walgreens, visit www.walgreens.com/vitaminangels
For more information about Vitamin Angels, visit
https://www.vitaminangels.org/
About Walgreens
Walgreens (walgreens.com), one of the nation's largest drugstore
chains, is included in the Retail Pharmacy USA Division of
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBA), the first global
pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise. Approximately 8
million customers interact with Walgreens in stores and online each
day, using the most convenient, multichannel access to consumer
goods and services and trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and
wellness services and advice. As of Aug. 31, 2018, Walgreens
operates 9,560 drugstores with a presence in all 50 states, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands,
along with its omni-channel business, Walgreens.com. Approximately
400 Walgreens stores offer Healthcare Clinic or other provider
retail clinic services.
About Vitamin Angels
Vitamin Angels is a global public health organization working to
end malnutrition worldwide by distributing life-changing vitamins
and minerals to at-risk mothers and children under five in the U.S.
and around the world. In 2019, Vitamin Angels will provide vitamins
and minerals to over 70 million mothers and children in more than
70 countries, including domestically in the U.S. Both Charity
Navigator and GuideStar give Vitamin Angels their highest marks for
financial transparency. To learn more, visit
www.vitaminangels.org.
1 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Iron status of North
American pregnant women: an update on longitudinal data and gaps in
knowledge from the United States and Canada, 2017.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5701721/
2 UNICEF. Coverage at a Crossroads: New directions for vitamin A
supplementation programmes. New York: UNICEF, 2018.
https://data.unicef.org/resources/vitamin-a-coverage/https://data.unicef.org/resources/vitamin-a-coverage/
3 Maternal and Child Nutrition. Barriers and enablers for iron
folic acid (IFA) supplementation in pregnant women, 2017.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mcn.12532; USAID.
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