IDPAS Iron World Focus Topics
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- Understanding Anemia including IDA
· Metabolism
· Causes
· Functional consequences
· Anemia, iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia
- National Advocacy for IDA
· Economic issues and consequences related to ID/IDA
· International goals for children: and women
· World Summit for Children 1990
· UNGASS on Children 2001
· Others international conferences focusing on improving iron Nutrition
· Iron deficiency and human rights
· Iron nutrition as a lifecycle issue
- Prevalence of Anemia and IDA
· Assessments
· Guidelines
· Techniques
· Equipment and supplies
· Organizations providing support information
- Planning
· Sources of financial and supply assistance
· Program planning guidelines
· Required partnerships and alliances
· Integrated strategy models
· Intervention scheduling
- Strategies to Prevent and Control IDA
· Iron and multi-micronutrient supplementation (protocols, guidelines,
research)
· For infants
· For adults
· For pregnant women
· For adolescents and school children
· Controversial issues
· Iron supplements and malaria
· Iron supplements and HIV/AIDS
· Iron overload/ hemochromatosis
· New types of supplements
· Issues of financing supplementation
· Technical assistance
· Supplement costs and suppliers
- Food Fortification with Iron (and Other Micronutrients)
· Selecting an appropriate vehicle
· Wheat flour
· Condiments
· Complementary foods
· Infant formula
· Other staples and foods
· Supplies and equipment
· Technical and quality control issues
· Financing fortificant
· Groups assisting with fortification issues
· Planning, partners and potential sources of support
- Information, Education and Communication for Dietary
Change to Prevent IDA
· Planning IEC strategies for iron nutrition
· IEC supporting fortification
· IEC supporting supplementation
· Media and message examples
· IEC technical assistance
- Program and Strategy Monitoring, Evaluation and Review
· Monitoring guidelines
· Evaluation and case study guidelines
· Suggestions on documenting and sharing lessons learned
· Qualitative and quantitative issues.
· Planning effective research communication
· Micronutrient review specialists
- Linking or Integrating IDA Prevention and Control to
Relevant Programs and Strategies
· Helminthes control
· Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BHFI)
· Infant and young child feeding/complementary feeding
· HIV/AIDS prevention and control
· Malaria prevention and control
· Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
· Reproductive health
- Events and Meetings
· Sessions of UN/ACC Subcommittee on Nutrition
· GAIN Meetings
· Working Group on Strategies to Eliminate Iron Deficiency in Children
Less Than Two Years of Age by 2008
· INACG Meetings
· United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children
· Proceedings of Forging Effective Srategies to Combat Iron Deficiency
· Proceedings of Iron Deficiency Anemia-Reexaming the Nature and Magnitude
of the Health Problem
· The XI International Symposium on Iron Nutrition and Interactions
in Plants