Recommendations
for AFP Surveillance
Policy
on Infant Feeding
Appropriate nutritional practices play a pivotal role in determining
optimal health and development of infants concerned by the lack
of uniform guidelines for appropriate infant feeding practces
in the India context, the IAP Subspeciality Chapter on Nutrition
conducted a Workshop to define a policy on Infant Feeding.....
Recommendations
for IEC & Social Mobilization
Information, Education and Communication must be continuously
updated, should be an ongoing process and must have catching
interplay of strategy, art and glamorization and dramatization.
This must be constantly related to the feedback from beneficiaries....
Policy
on Linking Vitamin A to the Pulse Polio Program
There is a proposal to link massive dose Vitamin A prophylaxis
with pulse polio immunization in under-five children. The members
of the IAP Subspecialty Chapter on Nutrition carefully deliberated
the merits and demerits of this proposal....
Immunization
Policies, Guidelines & Recommendations
The IAP Committee on Immunization has updated its stand on several
issues and has made clear statements on them in January, 1999.
They have been approved by the Executive Board in its meeting
in February, 1999 at Jaipur and they have become the official
stand of the Academy....
IAP
Guidelines on Conference Organization
The Indian Academy of Pediatrics has been holding the National
Conference every year during the month of January/February.
It has been the custom so far to organize the conference at
different parts of the country so that maximum number of delegates
from in and around the place could participate in the conference
with least expenses and inconveniences... |
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