Controversies Continue: Universal Supplementation of Megadose of Vitamin A to Young Children in India

The universal megadose of vitamin A (MDVA) supplementation program was started in the year 1970. The program is presently in continuation for the prevention of nutritional blindness and possibly reduction in under-five mortality rate (U5MR). Presently, blindness due to vitamin A deficiency (VAD) has...

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Autores principales: Sareen, Neha, Kapil, Umesh
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4799646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27051081
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.177515
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description The universal megadose of vitamin A (MDVA) supplementation program was started in the year 1970. The program is presently in continuation for the prevention of nutritional blindness and possibly reduction in under-five mortality rate (U5MR). Presently, blindness due to vitamin A deficiency (VAD) has disappeared and the difference between U5MR and infant mortality rate (IMR) is less than 10 thus MDVA is unlikely to have any impact on mortality. The continuation of universal MDVA needs to be modified based on the current scientific evidence.
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spelling pubmed-47996462016-04-05 Controversies Continue: Universal Supplementation of Megadose of Vitamin A to Young Children in India Sareen, Neha Kapil, Umesh Indian J Community Med View Point The universal megadose of vitamin A (MDVA) supplementation program was started in the year 1970. The program is presently in continuation for the prevention of nutritional blindness and possibly reduction in under-five mortality rate (U5MR). Presently, blindness due to vitamin A deficiency (VAD) has disappeared and the difference between U5MR and infant mortality rate (IMR) is less than 10 thus MDVA is unlikely to have any impact on mortality. The continuation of universal MDVA needs to be modified based on the current scientific evidence. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4799646/ /pubmed/27051081 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.177515 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Community Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Controversies Continue: Universal Supplementation of Megadose of Vitamin A to Young Children in India
title Controversies Continue: Universal Supplementation of Megadose of Vitamin A to Young Children in India
title_full Controversies Continue: Universal Supplementation of Megadose of Vitamin A to Young Children in India
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title_short Controversies Continue: Universal Supplementation of Megadose of Vitamin A to Young Children in India
title_sort controversies continue: universal supplementation of megadose of vitamin a to young children in india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4799646/
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