{"id":1528,"date":"2021-08-16T13:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/?page_id=1528"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:06:02","slug":"nutrition-unit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/index.php\/health\/nutrition-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>NUTRITION UNIT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conduct quarterly monitoring\/supportive supervision on nutrition programs to all the 5 sub districts.<\/li>\n<li>To engage stakeholders and the media quarterly on GIFTS\/ nutrition programs<\/li>\n<li>To organize in-service training on growth measurements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>INTERVENTIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>GROWTH MONITORING AND PROMOTION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) seeks to track the growth of a child by regularly measuring the child and comparing his or her growth (i.e., height or weight) to a standard, assessing growth adequacy, and linking the growth trend with a target action through tailored counseling and referral.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>VITAMIN-A SUPLMENTATION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vitamin A supplementation involves treating all children aged approximately 6-months to 5-years in areas at high-risk for vitamin A deficiency with high-dose vitamin A supplements two or three times per year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>GIFT PROGRAM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The GIFT program seeks to promote the intake of IFA supplementation among menstruating adolescent girls (10-19years) that is in school, out of school and women above 20yars, the GIFT program is design to provide weekly IFA supplementation through schools, health facilities and other channels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>KOKO Plus INTERVENTION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The GHS is collaborating with IFPRI and with funding from the Ajinomoto Foundation and the government of Japan to implement a pilot intervention in selected refugee camps and host communities with the aim to improve the nutritional and health status of mothers and children.<\/p>\n<p>The intervention seeks to provide KOKO Plus periodically to children aged between 6 and 48 months for the period of 10 months.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>SUPPORTIVE SUPPERVITION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This seeks to help health care provider to deliver quality services through proper monitoring and supervision to identify problems, challenges and how to solve those problems and challenges.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD FEEDIND<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The IYCF program seeks to address these problems on infant and young child feeding practices, it aimed to improve the nutritional status and health of children especially the under-three and consequently reduce infant and under-five mortality.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>IOD<\/strong><strong>IZED SALT INITIATIVE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This initiative seeks to reduce iodine deficiency in both children and adults by educating the public on the benefits of consuming iodized salt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUTRITION UNIT SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Conduct quarterly monitoring\/supportive supervision on nutrition programs to all the 5 sub districts. To engage stakeholders and the media quarterly on GIFTS\/ nutrition programs To organize in-service training on growth measurements. &nbsp; INTERVENTIONS GROWTH MONITORING AND PROMOTION Growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) seeks to track the growth of a child by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":1526,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1528","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1528\/revisions\/1529"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keeama.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}