A trial in Ghana has shown that vitamin A supplementation does not reduce maternal mortality-contradicting previous findings from a trial in Nepal which showed a 44% decrease. The new study (ObaapaVitA) is reported in an Article Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet-written by Professor Betty R Kirkwood, Department of Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and colleagues. ObaapaVitA was a cluster-randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial undertaken in seven districts in Brong Ahafo Region in Ghana... 
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