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Infant and young child nutrition

A smiling baby on a hammock
Programme
01/24/2019
Child survival
Helping children survive and thrive
A health worker measures the circumference of a child's upper arm using a mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) tape to determine the child's nutrition status. The pointer of the tape is in the red figures range, which means that the child is thin for their height.
Press release
08/03/2020
Addressing stunting and malnutrition should go beyond Nutrition Month celebration
A young mother breastfeeds her baby
Article
07/29/2020
A mother too soon
At 15, baby-faced Kimberly is a mother to 6-month-old Princess
Press release
04/07/2020
Unang yakap and breastfeeding are life-saving for babies in the Philippines
UN agencies stress the need for EINC and breastfeeding support to mothers
A mother, wearing a hijab, carrying her child
Article
11/14/2019
Malnutrition poses health and economic burden in Bangsamoro
1 in 2 children under 5 years old in the region is stunted
Children with different heights but of the same age line up in front of a height measurement line
Press release
10/16/2019
UNICEF: Many children and adolescents in the Philippines are not growing up healthily
More children and young people are eating unhealthy food
A group of women breastfeed their children simultaneously while raising their fists to show their support for breastfeeding.
Press release
08/18/2019
Hundreds of mothers gather to celebrate National Breastfeeding Awareness Month
Officials of the Department of Health, Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center and UNICEF cut the ribbon in front of the EVRMC Human Milk Bank
Press release
02/28/2019
Human Milk Bank launched as part of building back better after Yolanda
EVRMC and UNICEF establish human milk bank to benefit thousands of babies in Region 8
From left to right, Department of Health Undersecretary of Health Dr. Gerardo Bayuga, Senator Risa Hontiveros, UNICEF Philippines Representative Lotta Sylwander, and KOICA Philippines Assistant Country Director Paik Seunghwa
Press release
02/12/2019
Korean government and UNICEF launch First 1000 Days Program for vulnerable communities
Integrated Nutrition and Health Actions in the First 1,000 Days of Life Program to benefit 40,000 children under-5 and 57,000 pregnant/lactating women in Samar, Northern Samar and Zamboanga del Norte
Press release
12/08/2018
Child rights advocates elated as ‘First 1,000 Days’ bill gets signed into law