CACFP stands for:

Child and Adult Care Food Program

SNP stands for:

Special Nutrition Program

Special Nutrition Program was introduced in 1970 to improve the nutritional status of specific target groups
The target groups are:

children under 6 years
pregnant and lactating mothers

The program is operated in the following locations:

urban slums
tribal areas
backward rural areas

Supplementary nutrition is provided for 300 days every year

Children under 6 years – 300kcal, 10-12g protein
Pregnant and lactating women – 500kcal, 25g protein

Initially the program was under the Central Government
The responsibility was later shifted to the state government under the Minimum Needs Program
Now the special nutrition program is integrated with the ICDS (Integrated Child Development …

Vitamin A prophylaxis program aims at providing Vitamin A –  2 lakh IU (110mg retinol palmitate) – to all preschool children – every 6 months
It is a part of National Program for Control of Blindness (India)
It was launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 1970
It utilises technology developed by National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad
It has helped to decrease the preventable blindness in the community

Distichiasis is a condition in which an extra row of eyelashes occupy the usual site of meibomian glands
It is of 2 types

Congenital distichiasis

The meibomian glands open into the hair follicles of the extra row of eyelashes as ordinary sebaceous glands
The eyelashes are directed backwards and may require epilation if they rub on the cornea

Acquired distichiasis (metaplastic lashes)

The meibomian glands undergo metaplasia to form hair follicles
It is seen in conditions like late stage of cicatrizing conjunctivitis due to chemical injury, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, ocular cicatricial pemphigoid

IMCD stands for:

Integrated Maternal and Child Development

Snoring is vibration of the respiratory structures and the resulting sound that results from obstructed air movement during sleeping
The site of snoring varies from person to person
The same person can have different sites of snoring at different times or may have multiple sites of snoring
This makes surgical correction difficult
The sites of snoring are:

soft palate
tonsillar pillars
laryngopharynx

Uniocular diplopia refers to the appearance of an object in double even when viewing it through one eye. The causes of uniocular diplopia are:

Subluxated clear lens
Subluxated intraocular lens
Keratoconus (irregular refraction from corneal surface)
Double pupil (congenital / large iridectomy / iridodialysis)
Incipient cataract (this usually causes polyopia – due to irregular refraction due to multiple water clefts within the lens)

IMNCI (Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Infections) is the Indian adaptation of IMCI (Integrated Management of Childhood Infections)
IMNCI differs from IMCI in the following ways:

Includes management of neonates (0-7 days of age)
Incorporates national guidelines on malaria, immunization, anemia and Vitamin A supplementation
Training of health staff starts with sick  young infants (0-2 months of age)
Equal time devoted for sick young infants and sick young children
Skill based

PKU stands for:

Phenylketonuria