Scaling up Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation in Jharkhand, India Minimizing Challenges, Maximizing Opportunities.

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorSharma, Deepika Mehrish
dc.contributor.authorJacob, Sangita
dc.contributor.authorVidyasagar, K
dc.contributor.authorSinha, Mridula
dc.contributor.authorTewari, Khyati
dc.contributor.authorDiwan, Nishant
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Binod
dc.contributor.authorSethi, Vani
dc.contributor.authorZachariah, Job
dc.contributor.authorAguayo, Victor M
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-30T06:36:36Z
dc.date.available2015-10-30T06:36:36Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractObjectives: Jharkhand is a predominantly tribal Indian state. Home to 3.5 million adolescent girls, two-thirds of Jharkhand's adolescent girls were reported to be anaemic. In 2000, the Government of Jharkhand launched the Adolescent Girls Anemia Control Programme (AGACP) in five of its 24 districts with technical support by UNICEF. This presentation summarizes a decade of experience in scaling up Jharkhand's AGACP. Methods: In its initial phase, the programme covered around 250,000 school-going adolescent girls in 2800 schools. The intervention included weekly iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation, bi-annual deworming, and nutrition counselling. The second phase was launched in 2009 to cover two million adolescent girls. During this phase the programme faced important challenges due to a break-down in the supply chain of IFA supplements and deworming tablets. However, weekly nutrition counselling sessions continued. The third phase of the programme was inaugurated in 2012 with the advent of the National Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) programme implemented in a convergent manner by the Departments of Health and Family Welfare, Women and Child Development, and Education. Results: The programme has been universalized across all 24 districts, by the state government. Currently, the programme covers 3 million adolescents. Conclusions: Approaches used for stabilizing the programme are valuable lessons (do's and dont's) in piloting, stabilizing and scaling up a large scale programme for the control of anaemia in adolescent girls in resource-constrained settings.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSharma Deepika Mehrish, Jacob Sangita, Vidyasagar K, Sinha Mridula, Tewari Khyati, Diwan Nishant, Kumar Binod, Sethi Vani, Zachariah Job, Aguayo Victor M. Scaling up Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation in Jharkhand, India Minimizing Challenges, Maximizing Opportunities. European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety. 2015 Special issue; 5(5): 586-587.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2347-5641
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/164863
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.source.urihttps://sciencedomain.org/abstract/10801en_US
dc.titleScaling up Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation in Jharkhand, India Minimizing Challenges, Maximizing Opportunities.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
ejnfs2015v5n5p586.pdf
Size:
173.58 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Conference abstract
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety