Democratising fight against malnutrition

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Democratising fight against malnutrition
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Women play an important role in guaranteeing sufficient food supply for their families. They are among the stakeholders whose voice needs to be heard in the debate on nutrition. There is a new dimension to the issue of malnutrition – governments, civil ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Apr

‘We’re OK on malnutrition’

Various interventions in combating malnutrition in the country have yielded fruits. One of the achievements is the decrease in stunting from 42 per cent in 2010 to 34.7 per cent last year.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Nov

Now is the time to tackle malnutrition

The scourge of malnutrition affects the most vulnerable in society, and it hurts most in the earliest stages of life. Today, more than 800 million people are chronically hungry -- about 11 per cent of the global population

 

10 years ago

BBC

Could a ‘miracle tree’ help end malnutrition

Could the moringa help eradicate malnutrition in Zambia?

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Nov

Fighting malnutrition and hunger in Tanzania

Yet another child’s life was cut short when he lost the battle to acute malnutrition. It is one of Tanzania’s biggest challenges that the government has been grappling with for decades.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Oct

Malnutrition takes toll on TZ: expert

An expert has attributed lopsided decisions pertaining to the welfare of the nation to Tanzanians’ failure to accord balanced diet and nutrition as large due priority especially before and after birth.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Feb

LOCAL FEATURE: Interventions needed against malnutrition

>Acute malnutrition is a devastating public health problem of epidemic proportions that needs quick intervention to avoid death, poor cognitive development as well as poor school performance of children.

 

9 years ago

Michuzi

UNICEF: Without toilets, childhood is even riskier due to malnutrition

Lack of access to toilets is endangering millions of the world’s poorest children, UNICEF said today, pointing to emerging evidence of links between inadequate sanitation and malnutrition.
Some 2.4 billion people globally do not have toilets and 946 million – roughly 1 in 8 of the world’s population – defecate in the open. Meanwhile, an estimated 159 million children under 5 years old are stunted (short for their age) and another 50 million are wasted (low weight for age).
In Tanzania, access...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Jan

Take part in anti-malnutrition drive, food dealers urged

Food dealers should be integrated into a programme against under-nutrition because they have a wide and direct contact with the population through their activities.

 

9 years ago

Dewji Blog

23 Sep

The coexistence of extreme deprivation and obesity is the real face of MALNUTRITION

GNR( GLOBAL NUTRITION REPORT) 2015 PRESS RELEASE. by andrewchale

 

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