Context:
WHO‘s Member States have endorsed global targets for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition and are committed to monitoring progress. The Targets include addressing issues like Stunting, Anaemia, Low Birth weight and Childhood Overweight.
- Stunting
- Stunting is a condition where a child is too short for their age due to poor nutrition, repeated infections, or inadequate psychosocial stimulation.
- Anaemia
- Anemia is a blood disorder that occurs when your body doesn’t have enough healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells.
- Anemia Mukt Bharat (AMB):
- Aims to reduce anemia in children, adolescents, and women.
- The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) launched in 2018.
- National Iron+ Initiative Program (NIPI)
- This program provides supplementation for pregnant and lactating women, and supplementary nutrition for adolescent girls.
- Launched in India in 2013 by the National Health Mission (NHM) to address anemia
- Mission Poshan 2.0
- This program focuses on maternal nutrition, infant and young child feeding, and treatment of malnutrition.
- Ministry for Women and Child Development inaugurated Poshan 2.0
- It was announced in Union Budget 2021-22 by merging supplementary nutrition programmes and the POSHAN Abhiyaan.
- Global Hunger Index: India’s Position is 105th out of 127 countries.
