Prevention
and control of Anemia among adolescent
girls in 30 villages of pernamalloor Block
of Tiruvannamalai District.
Objective
The principal objective of the
project was to address this critical health issue afflicting large sections of
our population and to provide an important component for a strong and effective
health policy through tested health development instruments. The project
proposed to launch an intensive action programme to identify and correct
anaemia among a target group of school going children (age 11-13) in thiruvannamalaiperanamalur
area. It was envisaged that as a result of this intervention, by the end of the
project, a cohort of vulnerable target group of adolescents and young children
in become largely free from anemia, a prime cause of health debility before
they enter adulthood.
III. Methodology
(i) Improving
nutritional status: By awareness
generation. In our project,
awareness generation was made by organising workshops and meetings with
students, teachers and parents in each school. Workshops and meetings followed
the method of close interactions.
(ii) Increasing
iron intake: daily supplementation
of Iron tablets. In our project,
each student was administered one iron tablet in school every day. The strategy
was to get the students to swallow the tablet in the classrooms in the presence
of their teachers. Iron tablets were administered by HHWs under supervision of
field workers (supervisors).
(iii)
Controlling infection: By general health check-up and control of
infections e.g., hook worm
infestation, etc. De-worming was done for all students at the beginning of our
programme and also at the end of the programme.
IV. Target population
The
project was conducted in 30 Villages in our targeted area of thiruvanamalai
district in Peranamalur Block. The students, boys and girls, were all
adolescent, belonging to age group 13-19. Total number of adolescence
girls covered was 850 directly and
indirectly 2500 adolesece girls covered by SWADD organization with the support
of SIGHT AND LIFE .
V. Programme schedule:
The main activities are as follows:
v
Recruitment
of Health workers
v
Staff Capacity
Building
v
Pre KAP (
Knowledge Attitude and Practice ) survey
v
Pre Hb Test
v
Strengthening
of Adolescent groups
v
Health
education on anemia and Food habits orientation to adolescent girls.
v
Workshop
on anemia for adolescent girls and boys
and youth
v
Staff
Review meeting
v
Promotion
of Kitchen garden
v
Support to
adolescent girls in providing the local prepared Nutritious food
v
Post KAP
and Hb Test
v
Reporting and Documentation
v
Monitoring and Evaluation
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