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Siargao youth suffer malnutrition in the wake of Super Typhoon Odette

Treating child malnutrition in Siargao after Typhoon Odette

UNICEF works with the Government to help improve programmes to address malnutrition in areas recovering from the typhoon

A mother and her two children inside an evacuation center

04 January 2022

Child evacuees face unseen threats after Typhoon Odette

Children in evacuation centers are at risk of malnutrition due to lack of food and unsafe water

Namraida Drapal, 16 months old, had gained weight since she was enlisted as a child with severe acute malnutrition.

27 September 2021

Saving children from malnutrition

By providing ready-to-use therapeutic food, UNICEF, in partnership with the UK government, is helping malnourished children in Maguindanao

Working together to end severe malnutrition in Bangsamoro children

Working together to end severe malnutrition in Bangsamoro

One in every two children in the Bangsamoro region is malnourished. The COVID-19 pandemic has made the situation worse.

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.

Addressing stunting and malnutrition should go beyond Nutrition Month celebration

A mother, wearing a hijab, carrying her child

14 November 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

16 October 2019

UNICEF: Many children and adolescents in the Philippines are not growing up healthily

More children and young people are eating unhealthy food

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

12 February 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

05 September 2018

Cebu Pacific expands ‘Change for Good’ initiative to Clark hub

Cebu Pacific and UNICEF renew Change for Good partnership

UNICEF’s Anne Curtis collects Change for Good aboard Cebu Pacific flight