2 Cents Cure for Blindness

Op-Ed Columnist
What a Little Vitamin A Could Do

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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: May 13, 2009

Americans pretty much take vitamin A for granted, but many of the world’s poorest people lack it. And as a result, it is estimated that more than half-a-million children die or go blind each year. There’s a simple fix: vitamin A capsules that cost about 2 cents each.
Op-Ed Columnist
What a Little Vitamin A Could Do

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/opinion/14kristof.html?_r=2
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Another solid example of the particular small changes that make make big differences.

It is good to know that there is a 2 cents cure for blindness. But there is another kind of blindness that is more prevalent. Actually, it is a combination of deafness, blindness and mute which prevents people from seeing, from hearing children getting blind for the lack of 2 cents a day.

That kind of blindness gets worse with money. The more money is invested on that, the blinder, the deafer, and the muter people get.

I wish we had a cure for that.