Public Health experts see malnutrition as one of the major public health and development concerns, globally. In Nigeria, especially in Nasarawa, Kaduna and Niger, the situation is dreadful – as revealed at a stakeholders meeting in Abuja recently. Iyobosa Uwugiaren, who was at the meeting writes The two-day review meeting on “Allocation, Release and Utilisation […]
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translated to mean ‘Doctors without Borders,’ an international medical humanitarian organisation has raised the alarm over the rocketing number of malnourished children in Nigeria’s north-west. In a statement at the weekend, the body which provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics and disasters, called on the Nigerian authorities and […]
The centres would be located in three Local Government Areas(LGAs) with a high rate of malnutrition in the three senatorial zones of the state. The Anambra State Primary Healthcare Development Agency says it plans to establish nutrition centres to address the problems of malnutrition in the state. Chioma Ezenyimulu, the Executive Secretary of the Agency, […]
Long before the Ukraine conflict began and sent wheat futures spiralling, scientists in Africa were experimenting with an alternative ingredient for baked goods: orange fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) puree. These efforts to diversify staple products like bread and chapati in Malawi as well as Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda by replacing as much as 60% of […]
There is a need to urgently devise ways to significantly boost food productivity if the country is to achieve its food security targets, experts and farmers say. They say one of the key bottlenecks facing the sector is lack of results-oriented research and called for increased funding in that area. The issue is even more […]
Mogadishu, Somalia — At least 500 children have died this year of malnutrition as Somalia deals with record-breaking drought, the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said. UNICEF Somalia says the death toll is just the “tip of the iceberg” as many deaths go unreported. UNICEF Somalia spokesman Victor Chinyama told VOA the drought is having its […]
Monrovia — In continuation of efforts aimed at promoting improved maternal newborn Health and Nutrition services in Liberia through the implementation of universal health services, the Government of Liberia with support from UNICEF held a two-day Maternal Newborn Health and Nutrition Conference 2022 in Zwedru City, Grand Gedeh County. The conference took place on June […]
In continuation of efforts aimed at promoting improved maternal newborn Health and Nutrition services in Liberia through the implementation of universal health services, the Government of Liberia with support from UNICEF held a two-day Maternal Newborn Health and Nutrition Conference 2022 in Zwedru City, Grand Gedeh County. The conference took place on June 28-29, 2022, […]
While food prices soar and millions of people in South Africa continue to go hungry, the government is dragging its feet on a plan to meet the constitutional right of all citizens to have access to sufficient nutritious, safe and affordable food, and to ensure food security. Maverick Citizen investigates what’s happening with the plan […]
The ZRBF is a long-term development initiative with an overall objective of contributing to the increased capacity of communities to protect development gains in the face of recurrent shocks and stresses development of Zimbabwe Participants and beneficiaries who attended the National Nutrition Learning Event in Gweru last week said the program’s care group approach makes […]
KISMAYO [SMN] – About 30 children have died of malnutrition in Kismayo, the regional capital of Lower Jubba, south of Somalia in the past few hours. These children were brought from some areas controlled by Al-Shabaab in Jubaland, which were affected by the drought in Somalia. The head of the malnutrition department at Kismayo Hospital, […]
New Orleans — When I first met Dr. Roland Bunch, I have to be honest–he scared me. As one of the most well-respected leaders on agronomy and resilient land management, he offers extremely prescient predictions on how famines take root when soils fail–and also has an admirably clear-eyed view of what we need to do […]
An unprecedented fourth failed rainy season with catastrophic hunger, disease and displacement has forced Somalia into a climate crisis, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Secretary General Jan Egeland warned today. “Somalia’s climate emergency is a hammer blow to millions, combining years of drought with unheard of levels of human suffering and starvation,” Egeland said at the […]
Uukwangula — The Oshana regional council and the World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday signed an agreement to help improve food security and nutrition in the region. The agreement was signed at the Nakalega irrigation project at Uukwangula, where the country’s National Food Security and Nutrition Policy was launched in December last year. Speaking at the […]
Almost 8 million children under the age of 5 are at risk of dying from severe malnutrition, UNICEF reported on Thursday. Most of these children are in 15 countries suffering from acute food and medical aid shortages. These crisis-hit countries include Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Haiti and Yemen. Undernutrition causes weakened immune systems, which increases the risk […]
Geneva — A senior U.N. official warns of catastrophic consequences for millions of people in northeast Nigeria facing a food and nutrition crisis if the U.N. does not receive the funds needed to assist them. U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator for Nigeria, Matthias Schmale, says he is ringing the alarm bell now because the United […]
Geneva — Soaring food prices, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, are pushing poor people to the brink of hunger in Malawi, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. The WFP said nearly 400,000 Malawians were already food insecure due to floods and droughts and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the […]
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Ghana: COA Mixture to Be Relaunched
All is set for the re-launch of COA, Mixture on Wednesday, following the Food and Drugs Authority(FDA)’s authorisation for the product to be marketed as a herbal medicine, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the COA Research and Manufacturing Company Limited, Professor Samuel Ato Duncan, has disclosed. With the approval by the FDA, he […]