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1. UNICEF: GOBI & FFF
Program
Prepare by
BPH VI
Manik Rajbhandari

2. Introduction of UNICEF
• United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
• Established 11 December 1946
• Headquarters New York City, U.S.
• Parent Organization United Nations
• Legal Status Active
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3. • Provides humanitarian and developmental assistance
to children and mothers in developing countries.
• To save the lives of approximately 7 million young children a year
• Four relatively simple and inexpensive methods and save the lives of
up to 20,000 children each day.
(State of the World's Children)
• UNICEF has a history of more than four decades of work in Nepal.
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4. • The Declaration of Alma-Ata Conference was held on Primary Health Care
in Kazakhstan, 6–12 September 1978.
• One year after the Alma-Alta declaration, Julia Walsh and Kenneth Warren
presented “selective primary health care”.
• They proposed that a selective PHC, maximize improvement of health in
developing countries.
• SPHC focus on four vertical programs i.e. GOBI & 3F was added later
1. Growth monitoring
2. Oral rehydration therapy
3. Breastfeeding
4. Immunization Family planning
5. Female education
6. Food supplementation
• Mainly focus on children.
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5. Growth monitoring
• Starting in the 1980s Growth Monitoring was promoted as one of the
key components of critical prevention care for young children.
• UNICEF conducted an evaluation of growth monitoring in 1995.
• To prevent most child malnutrition before begins.
• Provide basic awareness on weaning also from local food.
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6. Oral rehydration
• Oral rehydration save more than 4 million young children.
• 1 out 0f 20 U5 children is died in developing country from diarrhoeal.
• Main cause of U5 mortality in developing country.
• Child can be rehydrate by water, salt and sugar solution administration
by mother in home.
• Most of child is save by simple oral rehydration therapy.
• It is simplest and most important intervention to prevent dehydration.
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7. Breast feeding
• Infant need exclusive breast feeding for first 6 months of life.
• Colostrum, the yellowish, sticky breast milk produced at the end of
pregnancy is perfect food for the new-born, and feeding should be
initiated within the first hour after birth
• For infants, breast milk is more nutritious, more hygienic and provide
immunity for infections.
• Breast milk is important for growth and development of brain and
body.
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8. Immunization
• Measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, tuberculosis and polio
kill as estimated 5 million U5 children each year.
• 5 million are disable by this 5 disease.
• Major cause of Malnutrition.
• So, immunization is a major intervention to prevent from this disease.
• Immunization protect from VIP.
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9. Female education
• Even within low-income communities, a child born to a mother with
no education has been shown to be twice as likely to die in infancy as
a child born to a mother with even 4 years of schooling.
• UNICEF’s ‘Go Girls! Education for Every Child’ campaign is about
raising awareness, generating public support and mobilizing resources.
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10. Family Planning
• Infant and child deaths have been found to be on average, twice as
high when the interval between births is less than 2 years.
• Child spacing as bringing about an improvement in the survival, well-
being and quality of life of the child, the mother and the family.
• In 1994, the Cairo International Conference on Population and
Development made it clear that family planning programmes must be
part of a wider approach to improved child survival, safe motherhood
and reproductive health.
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11. Food supplements
• A handful of extra food each day for at risk pregnant women show
reduce the risk of low birth weight, decrease 2 to 3 times of infant
death.
• UNICEF and partners support the distribution of food supplements for
children at risk of malnutrition.
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12. Thank you…
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