Nine (9) Districts were able to achieve the target for 2017 compare to only seven (7) out of 22 Districts in 2016. This implies that other foods are given to children at three (3) months in majority of the districts. Though is a slight improvement over the previous year, continued effort is needed to improve on the exclusive breastfeeding rates in the Region TIMELY COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING Timely complementary feeding with continued breastfeeding till two (2) years or more is an essential nutrition action which leads to optimal child growth and nutritional status. Too early introduction or too late introduction of complementary foods have negative health and nutritional implications for infants. Thus, it is expected that at 6 months, the child should have started complementary feeding. This information is obtained during the child’s first Vitamin A dose session which is also at 6 months. The Regional Target for timely complementary feeding is 80%. The regional coverage experienced a slight increase in 2017 with 64.4% compared to 63.2% in 2016. Six (6) Districts achieved the target of 80% and above. Wassa Amenfi East recorded the highest coverage with 87.6%. The lowest coverage was in Bia West. GROWTH MONITORING AND PROMOTION Trend of point prevalence of underweight among children 0-59months attending CWC in 2013-2017 (December Attendance) The annual point prevalence of underweight is the percent of children 0-59months who are underweight among all children attending child welfare clinic in December. Since nutritional status is a the indicated is calculated by classifying the “health status”,
Nine (9) Districts were able to achieve the target for 2017 compare to only seven (7) out of 22 Districts in 2016. This implies that other foods are given to children at three (3) months in majority of the districts. Though is a slight improvement over the previous year, continued effort is needed to improve on the exclusive breastfeeding rates in the Region TIMELY COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING Timely complementary feeding with continued breastfeeding till two (2) years or more is an essential nutrition action which leads to optimal child growth and nutritional status. Too early introduction or too late introduction of complementary foods have negative health and nutritional implications for infants. Thus, it is expected that at 6 months, the child should have started complementary feeding. This information is obtained during the child’s first Vitamin A dose session which is also at 6 months. The Regional Target for timely complementary feeding is 80%. The regional coverage experienced a slight increase in 2017 with 64.4% compared to 63.2% in 2016. Six (6) Districts achieved the target of 80% and above. Wassa Amenfi East recorded the highest coverage with 87.6%. The lowest coverage was in Bia West. GROWTH MONITORING AND PROMOTION Trend of point prevalence of underweight among children 0-59months attending CWC in 2013-2017 (December Attendance) The annual point prevalence of underweight is the percent of children 0-59months who are underweight among all children attending child welfare clinic in December. Since nutritional status is a “health status”, the indicated is calculated by classifying the
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