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By the end of 2011, the programme was being rolled out in thirteen states and was reaching 27\u00b76 million adolescent girls of whom 16\u00b73 million were school-going girls and 11\u00b73 million were out-of-school girls. Building on the critical elements of and lessons learned from the programme, the Government of India launched in 2012 the national Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) programme to universalize the benefits of anaemia control to the overall population of Indian adolescents.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions<\/jats:title>The Adolescent Girls\u2019 Anaemia Control Programme in India provides a good example of how a knowledge-centred approach can successfully guide the scaling up of public health nutrition interventions and facilitate intersectoral convergence among different government departments and development partners to break the inter-generational cycle of undernutrition and deprivation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1017\/s1368980012005587","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,24]],"date-time":"2013-01-24T12:47:11Z","timestamp":1359031631000},"page":"1667-1676","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":61,"title":["The Adolescent Girls\u2019 Anaemia Control Programme: a decade of programming experience to break the inter-generational cycle of malnutrition in India"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"V\u00edctor M","family":"Aguayo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kajali","family":"Paintal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gayatri","family":"Singh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"S1368980012005587_ref24","volume-title":"Review of Adolescent Anemia Programs in India","author":"Dwivedi","year":"2006"},{"key":"S1368980012005587_ref23","first-page":"19","article-title":"Reducing anaemia among Indian adolescent girls through once-weekly supplementation with iron and folic acid. 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