Promotion of safe motherhood.

These workers provide services in child health, nutrition, family planning and treatment of minor ailments.

A. Health and nutrition

Often, they complement other programmes for nutritional monitoring, nutritional education, immunization and the promotion of proper health and nutrition practices.

UNOPS is also training male and female health workers so that they can advise on basic health, family planning and nutrition in rural areas.

PPAC areas of concern are, among others family care and alternative parental arrangements basic health and nutrition welfare and social security and safe environment.

The SMI program recommends and promotes, through its programs of assistance, nutrition adjusted during the pregnancy and the lactation.

Developing reproductive health services for teenagers and young adults.

UNICEF health and nutrition strategy

Training of health professionals regarding health nutrition education focusing on nutrition problems of women and children and their remedies has started.

Continuing national discussions focus on revision of the pension and health care schemes.

A malnourished child being measured as part of the supplemental feeding program.

An external evaluation of the progress made in rural areas by the health component of the Health and Nutrition Programme for Indigenous Peoples has shown that between 1997 and 2002 the number of consultations on nutrition given concerning children under age 5 increased by 49 .

They comprise the following Aetna Open Choice Blue Cross BlueChoice Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, Health Maintenance Organization (HIP) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northeast, Health Maintenance Organization (Kaiser) and Group Health Incorporated Dental Plan (GHI).

20. Amongst those plans that refer to the issue is draft national plan of action of Botswana, which includes a section on the elimination of discrimination against girls in health and nutrition.

Mandatory health plan

UNICEF will direct high programmatic intensity to areas of health and nutrition that are central to its mission ( first call for children ) and MTSP.

Health and nutrition

Poor nutrition and a more limited access to health care and health education jeopardize the overall health of girls. This leads to stunted growth and nutritional deficiencies such as anemia.

To improve health coverage.

WFP and the Government also began to implement a mother and child health service and school feeding programmes in areas identified as disadvantaged.

It is finalizing, with the Government, a plan that would target vulnerable groups through the mother and child health service and school feeding in identified disadvantaged areas.

Healthcare and family planning

Services under the compulsory health plan

POS Mandatory Health Plan

WFP also supports human resource development through its food aid projects it works to prevent the transfer of poverty to future generations through its supplementary feeding programmes which often complement other programmes for nutritional monitoring, nutritional education, immunization and promotion of proper health and nutrition practices.

Global health and nutrition partnerships have been instrumental in advocating for and raising the profile of health and nutrition for mothers and children both nationally and internationally.

(c) Crisis situations resulting in deterioration of the health and nutritional status of the population

(c) Reproductive health, including family planning and sexual health

WFP also participated in the ongoing work of the UNSCN working groups on HIV AIDS, household food security, school health and nutrition, nutrition in emergencies and micronutrients.

Nutrition in Primary Health Care (PHC) The objective is to improve in qualitative terms the nutritional status of women, girls and infants by providing and expanding more PHC nutritional services.

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General health care including nutritional supplements have been provided to Bhutanese refugees.

Regarding family planning, there is a national health program known as the Mother Child Program (SMI), which provides information and health care services to women in fertile age, as well as to the newborns.

(c) Recommendations for healthy nutrition of the population in Bulgaria, based on updated physiological nutritional standards (1994), have been prepared and will be published shortly

Educational sessions on health, nutrition and hygiene matters to promote personal health care.

Healthcare Programs (Vietnam) providing medical checkups surveying hygienic and nutritious conditions.

Construction was completed on a new health centre in Yarmouk camp providing general clinic services, mother and child health care and family planning services, and dental care and laboratory services.

WFP is also supporting health efforts towards education through its school feeding programme, which provides mid morning snacks to primary school children.

Providing preventive medical care, disease and malnutrition control, as well as providing the necessary health care for him her and for his her mother.

The aim of the school breakfasts programme in Mexico is both the improvement of the state of nutrition of girls and boys in the country and to develop correct eating habits.

Strategic objective L.5. Eliminate discrimination against girls in health and nutrition. Actions to be taken.

Plans were drawn up for replacement of the unsatisfactory health centre in Rashidieh camp with project funding.

Other measures included a food and nutrition programme focusing on children and mothers and a breastfeeding promotion and protection programme.

Female healthcare and family planning services