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. 2025 Mar 3:388:e080813.
doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-080813.

Supporting policy action to reduce adolescent anaemia in South Asia

Vani Sethi  1 , Zivai Murira  1 , Kapil Yadav  2 , Preetu Mishra  3 , Ireen Akhter Chowdhury  4 , Ahmadwali Aminee  4 ; South Asia Better Diets and Better Growth for Adolescent Girls Study Group
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Supporting policy action to reduce adolescent anaemia in South Asia

Vani Sethi et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Vani Sethi and colleagues highlight country efforts on evidence based policy making, strengthening implementation and institutional capacity, and inclusive strategies to accelerate reductions in anaemia in adolescent girls

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no interests to declare. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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Fig 1
Fig 1
Prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls in South Asia. Anaemia, defined as haemoglobin <11 g/dL for pregnant girls and <12 g/dL for non-pregnant girls. Sources of data: Afghanistan National Nutrition Survey (NNS) 2013; Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2011; Bhutan NNS 2015 and Fifth National Health Survey of Bhutan, 2023; India National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2005-06, 2015-16, and 2019–21; Maldives Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2001, DHS 2016–17; Nepal DHS 2005, 2011, 2016, 2022; Pakistan NNS 2011 and 2018; Sri Lanka National Nutrition and Micronutrient Survey (NNMS) 2016 and 2022
Fig 2
Fig 2
Nutrition interventions included in policies and programmes in South Asia for reducing anaemia in adolescent girls
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