Explain National Nutritional Anaemia Prophylaxis Programme (NNAPP)?
In past, both access to and intake of iron-folate tablets have been poor in children and therefore had a little impact in terms of reduction of anaemia in childhood. Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-2007) envisages detecting and correcting anaemia in children and adolescents as a part of school health check up and having a mechanism to cover the same for out-of-school children, who are likely to have a higher prevalence of anaemia. Further, screening of all anaemic children for worms and its education is also intended. This recommendation of the tenth five year plan has not been fully implemented as yet.