A large number of these children under 4 suffered from anaemia.

Adoption of policies and measures aimed at preventing malnutrition and anaemia

UNICEF also supported anaemia prevention programmes among adolescents in 10 states in India.

Leprosy, hypertension, diabetes, asthma, sickle cell anaemia, cataracts, trachoma, dental caries, mental illnesses.

However, the number of women suffering from anaemia and asthenia are still larger than men.

The food situation gave rise to growth delays and educational setbacks among children and anaemia among women.

As a result, the number of pregnant women suffered from anaemia reduced from 52 in 1995 to 32 in 2000.

The prevention of anaemia is increasingly recognized as vital to women's health and the intellectual development of infants and young children.

1.124 240,000 children below three years of age will have been monitored for growth and development, screened for anaemia and anaemic children treated.

Improving the nutritional status of pregnant women by reducing the prevalence of anaemia by one third and eliminating the manifestations of iodine deficiencies.

In ECD, delegations requested information on progress in maternal health, the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, anaemia reduction and the promotion of birth registration.

The current approach of providing iron folate supplements during pregnancy has had little impact on anaemia rates during pregnancy, due to problems in delivery.

The diseases are respiratory ailments, streptococcal pharyngitis, conjunctivitis, typhoid and paratyphoid, viral hepatitis, skin diseases, anaemia, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, ictus, mental disorders, tuberculosis and malaria.

Iraq further argues that, in any event, the oil well fires could not have caused the asserted increase in the number of cases of malaria, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, and anaemia.

Studies revealed that anaemia rates in the Gaza Strip were as high as 54.7 per cent among children, 35.7 per cent among pregnant women and 45.7 per cent among nursing mothers.

(b) Redesign of the special programme for control of non communicable diseases and prevention and control of iron deficiency anaemia in order to improve the impact of these programmes on the health status of the target group

However, Iran has not provided any evidence to demonstrate that there is a causal link between certain of the diseases referred to in the claim, including typhoid, viral hepatitis, anaemia, hypertension, tuberculosis and malaria, and pollution from the oil well fires.

1.121 90,000 pregnant women will have received ante natal care been screened for anaemia and received iron and vitamin supplements and a similar number of women will have had at least one post natal visit within the first six weeks after delivery.

WFP is working together with WHO and UNICEF on its project on supplementary feeding to pregnant and lactating mothers and children, which aims to reduce malnutrition among children under the age of five, pregnant and lactating women, to reduce low birth weight of children and to reduce anaemia among pregnant women.

The delays experienced in the execution of prior programmes had led to chronic imbalances in the diet of refugees, causing a malnutrition rate of 35 per cent in children and an anaemia rate of about 48 per cent in women of childbearing age and of 45 per cent for children.

For example, Americans who designed the tests for a medicine to treat sickle cell anaemia estimated that, with Cuban participation, the medicine could have been put on the market at least one year earlier, as the tests would have benefited from the existence in Cuba of a national register of sickle cell patients, which does not exist in the United States.