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HealtyBuddy

28 September 2021

How to get children to eat healthy

Healthy Buddy session inspires children from community to community to eat healthier and follow COVID-19 precautionary measures.

Over 120 children have come to school to take part in UNICEF’s “Healthy Buddy” session, organized in partnership with the Ministry of Health of Armenia.

Students in Armenia explore a healthy lifestyle

UNICEF reaches over 4,200 middle and high school students from 35 communities in Armenia through Healthy Buddy edutainment sessions

Adolescent girls are eating in the university canteen.

A review of the School Age Children and Adolescent Nutrition

Every child and adolescent have the right to adequate nutrition.

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English (PDF, 3 MB)

Отец крмит своего ребёнка.

Complementary Feeding and Diets of Young Children

The analyses provides key recommendations and actions to improve complementary feeding for the region.

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Children sitting around a basket of tomatoes.

Improving diets of children and youth in Central Asia and Caucasus

Regional symposium in Kazakhstan brings together key policymakers from the eight countries to take bold action against the double burden of malnutrition

A group of children jump in the air with smiles on their faces in a classroom in Guinea.

Brighter Futures

Protecting early brain development through salt iodization

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Children's hand holding household salt that is being tested for iodine by a UNICEF iodine deficiency specialist in Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Nearly 19 million newborns at risk of brain damage every year due to iodine deficiency

UNICEF and GAIN urge immediate action to increase access to iodized salt amid longstanding evidence on how deficiency reduces cognitive ability

Cooked rice, vegetables, meat and beans in multi-coloured plastic bowls.

12 October 2016

Five in six children under two not getting enough nutrition for growth and brain development