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2021 07 December

Tokyo nutrition summit kicks off

|First published on Tuesday 7 December 2021 by The Japan Times| The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2021 is taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday under the auspices of the Japanese government. The summit builds on more than 10 years of international focus on nutrition...

2021 29 November

Uganda: Ministry of Health, WHO, UNICEF and partners discuss advancing nutrition

Iselin Danbolt | Adolescent nutrition Child nutrition knowledge management Malnutrition SUN Business Network, SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network, SUN UN Network 0

| First published by WHO on 29 November 2021 | Kampala, 29 November 2021 - The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the country’s stakeholders on nutrition discussed advancing the nutrition agenda in Uganda in a one-day symposium, convened by the Ministry of Health, under the theme ‘Strengthening...

2021 18 March

Indonesia and Pakistan share civil society strategies on preventing adolescent anaemia

David Martin | Adolescent nutrition SUN Movement Pooled Fund SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Country Network 0

A story by: Asma Afrin Haque, Monitoring & Quality Assurance Specialist, SUN Movement Pooled Fund Adolescence is a critical time of life, where both physical and psycho-social changes occur, and where many learned behaviours take root in an individual’s life-long health. Adolescents may seem like a narrow...

2019 11 December

Adolescent girls in Indonesia use their smartphones to fight anaemia

David Martin | Adolescent nutrition Advocacy SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Country Network 0

* Story by Radhika Srivastava, NI Regional Advocacy and Communications Manager, Asia and originally published by Nutrition International The level of anaemia among Indonesian adolescent girls, which is as high as 30 to 40% in some provinces, is a public health concern. In collaboration with the Government...

2019 01 July

Empowering youth leaders to advocate for nutrition

Barbara Rehbinder | Adolescent nutrition Advocacy Champions Uncategorized 1

The health and nutrition of adolescents are becoming global priorities. There are over 1.2 billion adolescents aged 10-19 in the world and nearly a quarter of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa are aged 10 to 19. Different stages of the life cycle dictate differing nutrient...

2017 08 June

Accelerating action for adolescent health – The AA-HA! Guidance has launched

Thuy | Adolescent nutrition SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

In May 2017, during the 2017 Global Adolescent Health Conference, the major report "Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!): Guidance to support country implementation" was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO). ...

2017 06 June

Nutrition a key pillar at the 2017 Global Adolescent Health Conference

Thuy | Adolescent nutrition SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Donor Network 0

From 16-17 May 2017, the Global Adolescent Health Conference: Unleashing the Power of a Generation, organised by the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health, was held in Ottawa, Canada, and brought together nearly 400 development organisations and representatives from governments, academia and development from...

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