Objectives: In India, 56% of adolescent girls are anemic. In response to this situation and building on 13 years of evidence-generation using a knowledge-centred framework (evidence, innovation, evaluation and replication), India's adolescent girls anemia control programme was un...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20988
Objectives: West Bengal - India's most densely populated state - is home to 8.3 million adolescent girls. Surveys indicate that 62 percent of adolescent girls were anemic, despite several sectoral programmes in place. To address this situation, the Government of West Bengal launc...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21065
Objectives: Surveys in 2002-05 indicated that the prevalence of severe forms of vitamin A deficiency in India was three-fold higher among children from schedule tribe (ST) households than among non-tribal children. Scheduled tribes constitute about 24% of the total population of...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21067
Richa Pandey, Jee Hyun Rah, Amit Kumar Ghosh, Shraddha Dwivedi, Subhash Chandra Gupta, Dhirendra Kumar Srivastava, Sunil Kumar Garg & Victor M. Aguayo·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Uttar Pradesh (UP) is a non-salt producing state in India. Most of the salt is imported and traded in 18 of the 75 districts in the state. In 2009, the household coverage of adequately iodized salt in UP was 43%. This presentation features the important initiative tak...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21066
Deepika Mehrish Sharma, Sangita Jacob, K. Vidyasagar, Mridula Sinha, Khyati Tewari, Nishant Diwan, Binod Kumar, Vani Sethi, Job Zachariah & Victor M. Aguayo·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: 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...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20977
Vandana Joshi, Anirudha Kulkarni, Neelam Bhatnagar, Sandip Ghosh, Pushpendra Kumar Dixit, Ved Prakash Gautam, Tulika Goswami Mahanta, Vani Sethi, Jeroo Master & Victor M. Aguayo·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: To generate evidence on engaging girls' collectives to address anemia and social norms in self-contained, privately-managed tea plantations in India. Methods: In 2006, UNICEF India partnered with a federation of tea companies in Assam's Dibrugarh district, and Twinnin...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21013