ANAEMIA | THE By 2025, achieve a 50% reduction in

2
GOAL the rate of anaemia in women of
reproductive age

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS
WHY IT MATTERS

INTEGRATED PLANNING
Anaemia increases the risk of
adverse maternal WHAT? Address nutritional and non-
Fe

& nutritional causes of anaemia

and their determinants
neonatal outcomes HOW? Include interventions with an effect
on anaemia in national health,
education, agriculture and development plans

MULTI-SECTORAL APPROACH
ZZ Z
fatigue and
causes Use a multi-
lethargy, and impairs WHAT?
sectoral approach
physical capacity to anaemia prevention
and work performance and control

Ensure that
HOW?
development policies
and programmes beyond the health sector include
nutrition and other major causes of anaemia relevant
Impairs the health to the country context
and quality of life for
millions of STRENGTHEN HEALTH SYSTEMS
women,
and the development
and learning of their children WHAT? Provide hospital and health
facilities-based capacity for
anaemia prevention
and treatment
Support antenatal iron and folic
HOW?
acid supplementation (daily or intermittent) as
part of routine antenatal care
Anaemia reduction can help drive
progress against the other global
nutrition targets COMMUNITY SUPPORT
• stunting • breastfeeding
Raise awareness of the value of iron
• wasting • low birth weight WHAT?
supplementation in women of
reproductive age
• childhood overweight
Support community mobilization
HOW? and social marketing strategies

SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM

In 2011, 29% ofwomen
non-pregnant
and
Anaemia affects half a billion women of reproductive
age worldwide 38%
of pregnant women aged
15–49 years were anaemic

To improve maternal, infant

and young child nutrition