New Hampshire Folic Acid Program

The NH Department of Health and Human Services, Folic Acid Education Program provides education to women of childbearing age about folic acid and its role in the prevention of neural tube birth defects.

Program mission: To increase our state’s awareness of the importance for women to consume adequate amounts of Folic Acid in an effort to decrease neural tube birth defects (NTD’s) in New Hampshire.

Program goal: To increase the number of women of childbearing age who consume adequate amounts of folic acid in their diets and in multivitamins containing 400 micrograms of Folic Acid and decrease the number of NTD’s in our babies.

Ongoing Prevention Activities:

Folic Acid Educational In-services
NH Folic Acid Council
Multivitamin distribution to low-income women
Exhibits at health fairs & conferences
Distribution of free educational materials
Marriage license program for town halls

For more information about folic acid prevention and to order free materials please contact the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/folicacid/freematerials.html