Conduct the following nutrition interventions:
Control of child undernutrition
- Reduce of the prevalence rate of undernutrition among infant and young children
- Improve infant and young child feeding
- Improve dietary habit affecting nutritional status of infant and children
- Contribute improving household food security
- Improve dietary habit affecting nutritional status of infant and children
- Reduce the risk of infectious diseases
- Reduce the prevalence of LBW
- Prevent the deterioration of malnutrition cases at early stage
Control of low birth weight
- Reduce the prevalence of low birth weight
- Reduce the prevalence of malnourished pregnant women
- Reduce cases of early and frequent pregnancies
- Reduce number of pregnant women having habit of smoking cigarette /shisha and chewing qat
- Improve the services of nutrition screening and counseling for pregnant women
- Increase the access rate of monitoring and providing special care for low-birth weight babies
Control of maternal undernutrition
- Reduce the prevalence of undernutrition among women of reproductive age
- Improve dietary diversity and modification for pregnant and lactating mothers
- Detect under-nutrition of pregnant mothers at early stage and provide appropriate counseling
- Prevent early pregnancy and frequent pregnancy
- Improve the life custom of women which can be a risk factor of maternal health and nutrition such as heavy work load, smoking and chewing qat
Control of rickets
- Eliminate the prevalence of rickets among children under five
- Increase the rate of children exposure to sunlight for children and pregnant mother
- Increase the consumption of foods rich with vitamin D and calcium in children and pregnant mothers
- Increase the rate of detection and treatment cases for children with rickets symptoms at early stage
Control of iron deficiency anemia
- Reduce the prevalence of anemia among children under five and women of reproductive age
- Improve the quality and diversity of diet to increase the intake and bioavailability of iron
- Promote the use of iron fortified food
- Increase the access of iron/folate tablets among pregnant and lactating women
- Reduce the risk factor of parasitic infestation (Malaria, Schistosomiasis, Helminthes)
Control of vitamin A deficiency
- Decrease the prevalence rate of vitamin A deficiency disorder among children under five and mothers
- Increase the consumption of vitamin A rich food
- Increase the covering of foods fortified with vitamin A
- Increase the coverage of vitamin A capsule for children and mothers
Control of iodine deficiency
- To eliminate Iodine Deficiency Disorders in Yemen
- To ensure all the people can access iodized salt
Control of zinc deficiency
- Reduce of the prevalence of zinc deficiency
- Clarify the severity and the target group/area of zinc deficiency
- Increase the zinc intake among people with high risk of zinc deficiency
- Reduce the risk factor of high excretion of zinc
School nutrition
- Reduce the prevalence of undernutrition among school children aged from 6 to 15 years
- Improve food intake of school children quantitatively and qualitatively
- Decrease the incidence of infectious diseases which interrupt the nutritional status of school children
- Reduce the prevalence of malnutrition at early stage
Nutrition for emergency situation
- Reduce the critical risk of death and malnutrition during emergency situation
- Improve the situation of food shortage in the people who suffer from natural or man-made disasters (flood, drought, earthquake, war, food price crisis, etc)
- Prevent death cases from malnutrition under emergency situation