Nutrition
Multimedia
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Pakistan – Difference between life and death for children
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Chad – Health centres and community outreach tackle nutrition crisis
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Somalia – An innovative approach to ending malnutrition
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Niger – UNICEF and partners aid drought-affected families.
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Ethiopia – UNICEF and ECHO support nutrition services
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Kenya – UNICEF provides nutrition intervention
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Uganda – Combatting malnutrition
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UNICEF & ECHO: Partners for children
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Kenya – Healing amidst tragedy
Stories
UNICEF-supported health centres combat malnutrition in Niger
TAKIETA, Niger, 4 January 2011 – Seeking shade from the scorching midday heat, a small crowd of mothers who have brought their children in for malnutrition screening gather at the public health centre in Niger’s south-central Maradi Region.
Read more »In Somalia, UNICEF-supported programme treats malnutrition before it becomes life-threatening
HARGEISA, Somalia, 30 December 2010 – Salman Haji, 4, stands in the corner of a tin-walled hut, solemnly staring at the man in the white coat as he searches through an impressive amount of official looking paper spread across a large table in a seemingly random fashion. Eventually, a yellow medical card is found recording the details of Salman’s last visit to this mobile clinic, located on the outskirts of Hargeisa..
Read more »Community mobilizers help to fight childhood malnutrition in Somalia
HARGEISA, Somalia, 22 December 2010 – Halima Awali, 60, shushes the crowd of boisterous children gathered around her and proclaims, “I was there to bring almost all of these babies into the world.” Squinting into the fierce noon Somaliland sun, the smiling grandmother adds, “Now I am here to make sure all of them stay here."
Read more »Niger: war on malnutrition (On euronews)
Many mothers just do not know how good breast milk is for their babies, especially in the first six months. In Niger, for example, it is the custom to give babies water to drink in the hottest months, even if it has come from a polluted source, which is often the case.
Read more »In drought-stricken Madagascar, community health agents save lives
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, 26 May 2010 – Thousands of children were treated for severe acute malnutrition last year in southern Madagascar, where lack of rain and crop failures continue to threaten food security. Across the affected zone, more than 230,000 children under five years old remain at risk of malnutrition.
Read more »Nutrition for East Sudan: CMAM in Action
As a fan whirs overhead, circulating the air in the hot, arid environment of Kassala State, Fatima Mohammed sits in the Um al-Gora health clinic with her child, Alawiya.
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