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3. Current status:


HBP started in Bihar and Jharhand in July 2002 in 14 blocks. After poor performance of some of the blocks a warning meeting was held in 2003 and in 2004 the entire funds to the HBP Bihar-Jharkhand were stopped with the understanding that in 2005 only those blocks that improved their performance would receive funds . In 2005, 11 blocks are being funded; the 4 blocks that have been dropped are - Tundi (Dhanbad, Jh), kusheshwaraSthan (Darbhanga), dendari(Begusarai) and Tikapatti/Rupauli (Purniya). Following sections give a progress report of the program in the 11 active blocks.
 

3.1. Health status:

Second round of weight measurements of children below the age of five was completed in all blocks in July 2005. Following the second round of weighing, the data from the two rounds were consolidated and the short-term impact of the program was tabulated. Although the time interval between the two rounds of weighing is short, some clear trends were noticeable. For example blocks with a larger fraction of women volunteers did considerably better than those blocks with more male volunteers. This is mostly because women volunteers were better received when they went door to door to talk to mothers with young children.

 

 The changes in child malnutrition observed between two phases of the weighing process were compared for all 9 blocks in Bihar. In Figs. 3 - 16 we have shown the child nutrition status and the changes in malnutrition state from one grade to another for all nine active blocks of Bihar. Based on their weight the children of each block were divided into 5 grades; normal and four grades with increasing levels of malnutrition.  In our analysis grades I and II were designated as malnourished and grades III and IV were designated as severely malnourished.

 
 
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