malnutrition

A Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Ignatius Onimawo, says malnutrition during pregnancy may increase the risk of babies developing diabetes later in life. He explained that the quality and quantity of nutrition involved during…

A group of stakeholders have called on the government to lead a joint action in the fight against hunger and malnutrition underscoring the need to invest in smallholder farmers and youths to actively tackle poverty and eliminate food…

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), has launched a policy brief on fisheries and aquaculture, to address malnutrition in the country. Speaking at the launch of…

When her three-month-old baby fell sick from malnutrition, Dool Abdirahman Ismael left her village in Somalia and walked for three days through swirling dust and scorching heat to the Dadaab Refugee Camp just across the border in Kenya.…

The United Nations Children Education Fund, UNICEF has revealed that out of three million children under the age of five years in Kano, 1.5 million are stunted 108, 544 children are wasted, while 2.03 million are anaemic representing (66%)…

The Gombe state government has taken delivery of the procured Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), for the treatment of malnutrition among children in the state. According to the Gombe State Government, the RUTF, which is worth fifty…

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has revealed that Nigeria is among the top 10 countries affected by severe wasting in children below five years. According to UNICEF data, India accounts for the greatest number of…

Environmental activists and World Food Programme officials in Northern Kenya say extreme droughts caused by climate change have turned what used to be a "land of plenty" into one where people are struggling for food. The river in…

The Chinese government has handed over 14,056 boxes of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) to the UN children's agency, UNICEF to help in the fight against child malnutrition in South Sudan. "We are very proud to be in association with…