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One of the efforts in the acceleration of stunting reduction program
conducted by the Indonesian government is to carry out integrated stunting
reduction intervention. One of the main indicator targets is the prevalence of
anemia among pregnant women and adolescent girls, and the intervention given
is in the form of iron and folic acid (IFA) supplement for pregnant women and
adolescent girls (1).
The WIFA (Weekly Iron-Folic Acid) supplementation program for
adolescent school girls is mainly allocated in regencies where they are found as
locusts of stunting. Adolescence presents a second window of opportunity for
establishing healthy lifelong nutrition. Adolescents are vulnerable to
undernutrition because their rapid growth raises their nutritional needs. In 2018,
32% of Indonesian adolescents in Indonesia suffered from anemia (2).
Iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation is an intervention given to
pregnant women and adolescent girls to reduce the prevalence of anemia among
pregnant women and adolescent girls. It is one of the efforts to accelerate the
alleviation of stunting in Indonesia as an integrated stunting reduction
intervention. Increasing stunting awareness among school-going adolescents
through optimization of the implementation of WIFA supplementation is the
potential way to induce behavioral change in improving lifelong nutrition and
health to overcome stunting.