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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
  

• Other areas of interest

 

Iron Deficiency Project Advisory Service International Nutrition Foundation Web site: http://www.micronutrient.org/IDPAS Email: idpas@inffoundation.org Phone (1-617) 636-3770 Fax: (1-617) 636-3781 Project Office: 150 Harrison Street, Boston, MA, 02111 Gerald J. & Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University