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are - awareness generation, promotion of breastfeeding and inter personal
counseling at community level, skilled support for breastfeeding at delivery
points, monitoring and award/recognition.
Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight
It is a programme to combat diarrheal mortality in children with the ultimate
aim of zero child deaths due to childhood diarrhea. Intensified Diarrhoea Control
Fortnight (IDCF) is being implemented as a campaign in the month of July,
since 2014, for control of deaths due to diarrhoea across all states and UTs.
Under this, more than 14.7 crore under-5 children have been reached since 2014
by ASHA with prophylactic ORS. Main activities include intensification of
advocacy activities, awareness generation activities, diarrhoea management
service provision, establishing ORS-zinc demonstration sites, ORS distribution
by ASHA through home visitation, detection of undernourished children and
their treatment, promotion of infant and young child feeding activities by home
visits by ASHA and establishing IYCF corners.
National Deworming Day
To combat Soil Transmitted Helminth (STH) infections, the Ministry has adopted
a single day strategy called National Deworming Day (NDD) wherein single
dose of albendazole is administered to children from 1-19 years of age group
schools and anganwadi centres. Till February 2017, 27.8 crore children were
administered albendazole.
Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram
This initiative launched in 2013 entails provision for Child Health Screening
and Early Intervention Services through early detection and management of 4
Ds i.e. defects at birth, diseases, deficiencies, development delays including
disability and free management of 30 identified health conditions including
surgery at tertiary health facilities. Children between 0-18 years of age are
expected to be covered in a phased manner across the country.
Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram
The Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) was launched to provide
information, commodities and services to meet the diverse needs of adolescents.
The intervention under RKSK are: Weekly Iron Folic Supplementation: WIFS is
evidence based programmatic response to the prevailing anaemia situation
amongst adolescent girls and boys through supervised weekly ingestion of IFA
supplementation. Menstrual Hygiene Scheme: The scheme aims to ensure that
adolescent girls have adequate knowledge and information about menstrual
hygiene and the use of sanitary napkins and high quality, safe products are
made available to them with knowledge of environmentally safe disposal
mechanisms; Peer Educator Programme: The Programme aims to ensure that
adolescents are benefitted from regular and sustained peer education covering
nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, and conditions for NCDs, substance