Situation report
Rapid Assessment Summary for Development of Social & Behaviour Change Communication Strategy
Page 1 Rapid Assessment Summaryfor Development of Social & Behaviour Change Communication StrategyTHE FIRST 1000-DAYS OF LIFE Ministry of HealthRepublic of Maldives Page 2 Ministry of Health Health Protection Agency United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF)Published in Maldives, 2019 Page 3 The Maldives First 100...
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UNICEF: An additional 6.7 million children under 5 could suffer from wasting this year due to COVID-19
NEW YORK, 27 JULY 2020 – An additional 6.7 million children under the age of five could suffer from wasting – and therefore become dangerously undernourished – in 2020 as a result of the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF warned today. According to an analysis published in The Lancet , 80 per c...
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As more go hungry and malnutrition persists, achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns
Rome, 13 July 2020 – More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, and countries around the world continue to struggle with multiple forms of malnutrition. The latest edition of the S...
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Global Report on Food Crises reveals scope of food crises as COVID-19 poses new risks to vulnerable countries
21 April 2020, Brussels/Rome/New York – Today an international alliance of UN, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies working to address the root causes of extreme hunger have released a new edition of their annual Global Report on Food Crises . Key findings of the Global Report The report by the Global Networ...
Report
2017 Health SDG Profile: The Maldives
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. This report highlights the Maldives' progress toward achieving the health-related SDGs.
Report
The Maldives Health Profile 2016
In 2016, the Ministry of Health published a health profile of the Maldivian population. The study includes rates of under- and over-nutrition, life expectancy, and child and maternal mortality rates, among other topics.
Programme
Nutrition
Context and challenges, Over the past few decades, the health status of children in the Maldives has improved dramatically. In just ten years, rates of undernutrition among children were nearly halved, and rates of exclusive breastfeeding jumped from 10 to 48 percent, and then from 48 to 64 percent over the next d...