(Consensus statement on the diagnosis and management of asthama in Children)

The Indian Academy of Pediatrics has been holding the National Conference every year during the month of January/February. It has been the custom so far to organize the conference at different parts of the country so that maximum number of delegates from in and around the place could participate in the conference with least expenses and inconveniences....

(Recommendation and IAP Plan of Action)

The IAP Committee on Immunization has updated its stand on several issues and has made clear statements on them in January, 1999. They have been approved by the Executive Board in its meeting in February, 1999 at Jaipur and they have become the official stand of the Academy....

Appropriate nutritional practices play a pivotal role in determining optimal health and development of infants concerned by the lack of uniform guidelines for appropriate infant feeding practces in the India context, the IAP Subspeciality Chapter on Nutrition conducted a Workshop to define a policy on Infant Feeding.....

There is a proposal to link massive dose Vitamin A prophylaxis with pulse polio immunization in under-five children. The members of the IAP Subspecialty Chapter on Nutrition carefully deliberated the merits and demerits of this proposal....

Information, Education and Communication must be continuously updated, should be an ongoing process and must have catching interplay of strategy, art and glamorization and dramatization. This must be constantly related to the feedback from beneficiaries....

(Conclusions and Recommendations)