Key Result Areas:

• Disease Specific Nutrition Support and Counseling
• Micronutrient Malnutrition Control
• Nutrition Promotion Education and Advocacy
• Household Food Security
• Infant and Young Child Feeding
• Food Services Management

Services offered by the Programme:

• Technical
• Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation on Issues relating to Nutrition

Target Audience:

• Vulnerable Communities
• Mothers
• Children
• Chronically ill

Legislation that Nutrition component adheres to:

• Foodstuffs and cosmetics

Achievements of the programme:

• Conducted first Provincial Vitamin A campaign
• Assessed and Reassessed all targeted hospitals for BFHI
• Conducted 2 TOT training on Infant Feeding

Information about diseases / illnesses

• Diabetes

General

• Food fortification logo

Healthy Eating Guidelines

• Nutrition and ageing
• Foods rich in iron
• Low protein renal diet
• Fluid restricted diet
• Foods rich in Folic Acid and Vitamin B₁₂

• Infant and Young Child Feeding Policy
• KwaZulu-Natal provincial guidelines on mother-baby friendly initiative implementation in Department of Health (94/2012)
• Implementation of the new policy on infant and young child feeding counseling on current prevention of mother to child transmission interventions (G68/2010)