Population-level effective coverage of adolescent weekly iron and folic acid supplementation is low in rural West Bengal, India.

CONCLUSIONS: The effective coverage of the WIFS programme for in-school adolescents and out-of-school adolescent girls is low in rural Birbhum. Integrated supply- and demand-side strategies appear to be necessary to increase the effective coverage and potential benefits of the WIFS programme. PMID: 32524931 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32524931?dopt=Abstract

Source: Public Health Nutrition - June 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sudfeld CR, Rai RK, Barik A, Valadez JJ, Fawzi WW Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research