Find out how SUN countries in West Africa marked World Breastfeeding Week 2017 (WBW2017) under the theme “Sustaining Breastfeeding Together”, highlighting how breastfeeding provides the essential nutrients that infants worldwide need to grow, develop and survive. ...
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On 8 August 2017, Indonesia's Vice President held a plenary meeting in his office on the problem of stunted children. According to the Health Affairs Ministry, around 37 percent, or approximately 9 million children, under five in Indonesia have stunted growth and such cases are spread throughout...
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On 23 July 2017, senior United Nations officials met with Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh to discuss cooperation of the UN agencies in the country. UN chiefs Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme...
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During a workshop in July 2017, UNICEF announced recent results stating that Ethiopia has reduced the rate of child malnutrition for children aged 6 to 23 months by 20 percent in sixteen years. The results, dropping from 58 percent in 2000 to 38 percent in...
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On 7 July 2017, the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) released a new report revealing the social and economic costs of undernutrition in the nation. The study emphasises the significant losses incurred each year through increased healthcare costs, additional burdens to...
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On 15 June 2017, Nutrition International launched the $CAD 9.1M (712M Ksh) "Right Start Initiative" in Kenya to improve the nutritional status of the population over the next five years....
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On 21 June 2017, Nutrition International launched the $CAN 2.8M (4.7B TZS) "Right Start Initiative" in Tanzania to improve the nutritional status of the population over the next five years. The programme aims to reduce anaemia, neonatal mortality, the number of low birth weight newborns...
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In June 2017, a new report was launched by Save the Children Australia which identifies the human and economic cost of child undernutrition in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The ground-breaking findings highlight that child undernutrition costs the PNG economy up to $USD 1.5 billion in...
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Since 2006, the government of the Kyrgyz Republic has implemented a national School Meals Programme for over 440,000 primary school children. In January 2013, the World Food Programme and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic launched a pilot intervention to improve the quality, efficiency, and...
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In May 2017, the inter-agency team (UNICEF-WHO-The World Bank Group) released new joint estimates for child stunting, overweight, underweight, wasting and severe wasting (May 2017 edition) using the same methodology as in previous years. Good nutrition allows children to grow, develop, learn, play, participate and...
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