Thailand hands out prenatal vitamins for Valentine's Day
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February 15, 2017
BANGKOK (AP) — Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Thai government is handing out pills it calls "very magical vitamins" to prospective mothers to boost the country's falling birthrate.
Government employees took to the streets of Bangkok on Tuesday to distribute 1 million baht's worth ($28,600) of prenatal vitamins containing folic acid and iron to women between the ages of 20 and 34.
The giveaway is part of a program called "the campaign for red-cheeked Thai women to have children for the country using very magical vitamins."
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