ASHENEWS reports that the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom says that an estimated one million children die annually due to wasting.
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UN and partners on Friday appealed for nearly US$400 million to prevent widespread hunger and malnutrition in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, in the north-east of the country.
Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, on Thursday, identified malnutrition as a threat to the survival, growth, and development of Nigerian children.
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has said that 245,300 children, aged under-five in Katsina State, are suffering from Severe…
The Aliko Dangote Foundation Integrated Nutrition (ADFIN) Project has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with Kano State government to…
Over a dozen children have died of malnutrition in the last six months in Afghanistan’s western Ghor province, local health…
Mr Ernest Aubee, Head, Agriculture Division, ECOWAS Commission, has said that half of the world’s population were underfed, with 3.4…
Amid worrying prevalence of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria, scientists and researchers in nutrition and dietetics have agreed on partnership to…
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says relief operations in Ethiopia’s northernmost Tigray region, challenged by limited…
By Yakubu Uba UNICEF is set to screen at least three million children for acute malnutrition in the northeast. Folashade…