The use of lay health workers including trained TBAs to deliver the following interventions is recommended, with targeted monitoring and evaluation: distribution of some oral supplementtype interventions to pregnant women (calcium supplementation for women living in areas with known low levels of calcium intake, routine iron and folate supplementation for pregnant women, intermittent presumptive therapy for malaria for pregnant women living in endemic areas and vitamin A supplementation for pregnant women living in areas where severe vitamin A deficiency is a serious public health problem); and initiation and maintenance of injectable contraceptives using a standard syringe