Nutrition

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Unicef describes severe child food poverty as children consuming no more than two out of eight food groups. Getty Images/borgogniels

11 million Nigerian children are going hungry: how this hurts their health and what needs to be done

25 Jul 2024

5 min read

Cross-posts Nutrition

Babies are weighed at their doorstep using growth monitoring weighing scales provided to CHWs by the Ministry of Health. Credit: Joyce Chimbi.

How Kenya is boosting babies’ access to their so-called “first vaccine”

4 Jun 2024

8 min read

Chito Nelson, former head of the Food and Nutrition Division at the Federal Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning. Credit: Royal Ibeh

Will a supplement pill help protect Nigerian women and children from anaemia during pregnancy?

7 May 2024

5 min read

Maternal and child health Nutrition

Cyclone Freddy devastated Malawi in March 2023, impacting over 2.2 million people and displacing around 600,000 individuals who are now faced with malnutrition. Copyright: GovernmentZA (CC BY-ND 2.0 DEED).

Plates and spoons to tackle malnutrition in Malawi

31 Jan 2024

3 min read

Cross-posts Nutrition

Some of the workers in the production kitchen. Credit: Chioma Obinna

Nigerian nutritionists use locally produced soy flour to aid malnourished children

12 Dec 2023

7 min read

Ready-to-use therapeutic food was added to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children in July 2023. Credit: Russell Watkins/DFID/flickr, CC BY

Wasting and edema — severe forms of malnutrition — affect millions of children worldwide as food insecurity grows

27 Nov 2023

6 min read

Cross-posts Nutrition

A child being treated at the malnutrition centre in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. Credit: Gavi/2017/Karel Prinsloo

Why integrating nutrition and immunisation can be a game-changer

21 Nov 2023

3 min read

Research summary Nutrition

Dang Moses was treated under the Unicef supported emergency nutrition program founded by ECHO. Credit: © UNICEF/UNI202541/Sibiloni

Breaking the vicious cycle of malnutrition and infectious disease

20 Nov 2023

5 min read

Hand hygiene and nutrition have a vital role to play in improving children’s health. Credit: jacqueline macou from Pixabay

How combining immunisation, handwashing and nutrition could help fight disease

10 Feb 2023

4 min read

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