There are various food taboos that women used to follow when pregnant or lactating.

Prevention targeting children 5 15 years of age, high risk groups, pregnant and lactating mothers

There is no government scheme of provision of nutrition to all pregnant and lactating women.

Such centres were providing nutrition education and food supplements to pregnant women and lactating mothers and supplying suitable weaning food to the children.

In the early 1980s a study on taboo foods was carried out and listed the restricted foods for babies as well as lactating mothers.

80. The health programme will be complemented by programmes to promote an adequate food supply and an appropriate diet to meet the specific nutritional needs of women, particularly pregnant and lactating women.

The Social Safety Net Program provides the poor with free health services at government health centers and hospitals and makes available supplementary food to children under five and pregnant lactating women in poor villages.

The representative mentioned that, under the Social Impact Amelioration Programme, periodic payments were made to elderly women and pregnant and lactating mothers, for a limited period of time, to cushion the effects of the withdrawal of government subsidies of basic goods.

Based on their findings, six therapeutic and supplementary feeding centres were established in camps (covering 65,000 people) and in towns and villages in Kailahun, Kenema and Kono to nourish displaced children, while dry rations were given to pregnant and lactating mothers.

The contributions of the poorest and most vulnerable persons in rural and urban areas would be subsidized and special attention would be given to, among others, women during and after pregnancy, lactating mothers, women heads of household and workers in the informal sector.

38. The programme will concentrate on children (30 per cent of the caseload), elderly (10 per cent of the caseload), disabled persons (5 per cent of the caseload), pregnant and lactating women (about 2 per cent of the caseload), and traumatized women who had been subjected to physical violence.

457. In reply to questions on the number and category of persons that had been affected by the civil war, the representative stated that the number of displaced persons was 320,828, among whom there were 18,828 children under five years of age, 2,832 orphans, 780 widows and 11,000 pregnant or lactating women.