National Health Strategy for 2010-2020.

National Health Strategy for 2010-2020 is a sectoral policy document, which summarizes the long-term goals of the country in the field of public health and how to achieve these goals, namely: strategies, programs and resources for the modernization of the public health sector.
The goal of the Strategy shall be overcoming nutritional deficiency and provision for all infants and children under 3 years of age with normal nutrition and, in particular, with micronutrients - vitamins and minerals.
The Program envisages provision with micronutrient food additives in cases of severe malnutrition (with index body weight less than 18.5) protein and calorie support for three quarters of pregnant women by 2020. Breastfeeding will be encouraged as supplementary feeding until of a two-year-old child. Children born to HIV-infected mothers will be given the opportunity to receive artificial nutrition. The state shall perform supervision and control over the quality of nutrition of children. The basic and universal strategy for good nutrition of infants will be exclusively breastfeeding from birth to six months of age. Children aged between six months and five years with severe anemia will be assigned ferrotherapy and the use of iodinated salt. An important part of the program is prevention of acute alimentary deficiency by support with Vitamin A for mothers immediately after childbirth and for children under five years of age. The country's economic growth will result in higher family incomes and improved living conditions, which will help to overcome poverty and to ensure that the family's living conditions are not compromised, and it will reduce the population's susceptibility to tuberculosis.
In the field of food and food safety quality related to foodstuffs and alimentary raw materials shall be undertaken the following measures: (a) identification of the main directions for the prevention of alimentary dependent diseases and conditions, based on the analysis of developed and implemented measures to eliminate the deficiency of vitamins, macro- and microelements; (b) further study the effects of genetically modified foodstuffs on public health, based on data from science and regulatory documents of the governing bodies; (c) conduct social and hygienic monitoring of pollution by potentially hazardous food contaminants of various nature; (d) development of risk assessment methods for various levels of pollution of foodstuffs, assessment of their danger to human health; (e) determination of the most significant environmental and food contaminants with exposure estimates and dose-factor dependence of their impact on public health; and (f) ensuring adequate nutrition in educational and public health facilities, using dietary foodstuffs with high nutritional and biological value.