Now is the time to tackle 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.

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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 ...

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.

Could the moringa help eradicate malnutrition in Zambia?

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.

>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.

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).
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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.

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