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iii. Educate the people about maternal and child health
iv. Provide knowledge about reproductive health
v. To make the family life happy by reducing the family burden

Functions
i. to give counselling about temporary methods of family planning to the concerned
families
ii. to provide family planning services to the couples who don’t want children any more

iii. to help the newly married couples to make their family life happy
iv. to examine the health of both mother and baby
v. to provide prenatal, neonatal and postnatal care

iv. Vitamin A Deficiency and Blindness Control Project
Lack of vitamin ‘A’ in the children below five years
of age is another health problem of Nepal. Due to
lack of vitamin ‘A’ various types of eye problems
are seen in the children. Deficiency of vitamin ‘A’
also affects the physical and mental development
of the children. In order to control the deficiency
of Vitamin ‘A’ , “Vitamin ‘A’ deficiency project”
has been started in Nepal in collaboration with
Nepal government and United Nation Food and Fig: 23
Agriculture Association. Its main objective is
to promote the nutrition level, reduce child death rate and eradicate the problems of
deficiency of vitamin ‘A’ through training and awareness programmes. At present the
Ministry of Health is launching vitamin ‘A’ programme. This programme conducts the
distribution of vitamin ‘A’ to the children below five years twice a year. It also encourages
the victims to take nutritious diet rich in vitamin ‘A’ as well as to get treatment of the
problems immediately.

v. HIV/AIDS Control Programme
HIV/AIDS was seen in 1988 AD for the first time
in Nepal. It is a sexually transmitted disease. It is
chronic as well as fatal disease spreading all over
the world. The number of HIV/AIDS patients are
increasing in Nepal day by day. Though there
is no proper treatment of the disease, different
programmes have been conducted since 1988/89
to control this disease. “National Centre for AIDS
and STD Control” has been established in Nepal to Fig: 24
prevent and control this disease. This organization also launches programmes to raise
awareness among the people to prevent HIV/AIDS.

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