What is UNICEF doing?
UNICEF is working with a number of government and non-government partners to address problems of malnutrition in Sri Lanka. Initiatives include: • Care for pregnant mothers: UNICEF is supporting the Government of Sri Lanka in promoting pre-natal nutrition services, including iron and folate supplementation, deworming, monitoring the nutritional status of expecting mothers and nutrition counselling. • Promotion of appropriate Infant and young child feeding: UNICEF heavily invests in island wide promotion, protection and support to breast feeding, coupled with support to the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and development of National Policy on the Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitute. • Growth Monitoring and Promotion: Empowering caregivers to understand the growth patterns of their children and to take appropriate action. To that effect UNICEF supports the printing of 350,000 copies of the Child Development Record annually for use in Growth Monitoring and Promotion – Control of
