Participants looked at a detailed situation analysis of anaemia in Pakistan which addressed prevalence, distribution and its main causes, efforts to reduce anaemia and proposed actions to significantly reduce prevalence. Participants shared experiences and best practices in nutrition.
As a next step, provincial departments of health will identify province-specific action points for policy uptake and implementation towards reducing anaemia according to the targets set by the World Health Assembly in 2012 – to reduce anaemia rates by half between 2012 and 2025 in women of reproductive age. As part of efforts these efforts, an anaemia reduction action framework for Pakistan is being developed.
