Iron supplementation and anaemia in India: necessary, but no longer sufficient
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Iron supplementation, anaemia, IndiaAbstract
With reference to the Editorial published in the Journal of EFI (Prasad M, Kapil U. Iron supplementation and anaemia in India: necessary, but no longer sufficient. Journal of the Epidemiology Foundation of India. 2025; 3(3): 229-230. DOI: https://doi.org/10.56450/JEFI.2025.v3i03.001), I would like to make following comments :-
The Editorial comprehensively brings out most of the measures for Anaemia control being implemented at present.
The Operational Guidelines under Anaemia Mukt Bharat (AMB) strategy launched by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Govt. of India in April,2018 focus on SIX Interventions including Addressing Non-Nutritional causes of Anemia, with special focus on Malaria, Haemoglobinopathies and Fluorosis. While the above Editorial does mention about the first two Non- Nutritional causes, equal emphasis needs to be given to Prevention and Control of Fluorosis in endemic areas.
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