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15 December 2023

Delivering essential nutrition services through community action in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has made significant strides in formulating robust policies and strategies to enhance its population’s nutritional well-being. Despite these efforts, the nation faces significant challenges in achieving its 2030 nutrition targets. While global indicators for breastfeeding are promising, PNG ...

28 January 2021

Nutrition crisis looms as more than 39 billion in-school meals missed since start of pandemic – UNICEF and WFP

NEW YORK/ROME, 28 January 2021 – More than 39 billion in-school meals have been missed globally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic due to school closures, according to a new report released today by the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti and the World Food Programme (WFP). COVID-19: Missing More Than a Cl...

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...

03 December 2018

Homepage - UNICEF Papua New Guinea

For every child, a childhood, Latest News, Resources, Group photo with participants., World Children’s Day speakers in Papua New Guinea, The future of Papua New Guinea looks bright, if grownups manage to end violence against children, say high school students who took part in UNICEF Papua New Guinea’s World Childr...

22 November 2018

Nutrition

The challenge, In Papua New Guinea, almost half of all children under the age of five (700,000) are stunted, or shorter than average for their age. Stunting —chronic malnutrition that causes reduced growth and development— has long-term and irreversible consequences for children’s survival and development because ...

UNICEF supports prevention and treatment of severe acute malnutrition in earthquake-affected areas

Eighteen-month-old twin sisters, Sandra and Sandy, only weigh 6.2 and 4.5 kilograms respectively, and still cannot walk. The sisters, youngest in a family of five children, from a remote village in Hela Province, are being treated for Severe Acute Malnutrition and diarrhea at the Mendi Hospital in Southern Highlan...

15 January 2018

Status of iodine nutrition among school age children in Simbu, Papua New Guinea

Sub-optimal intake or low bio availability of iodine can cause inadequate production of thyroid hormones, which are essential for normal growth and development.

23 November 2017

Promoting multi-sectoral approaches to nutrition to support development in Papua New Guinea

PORT MORESBY, 23 November 2017 – Promoting nutrition specific interventions using a multi-sectoral approach is key to accelerating progress and development for Papua New Guinea, UNICEF said today, following the country’s participation at a recent global Nutrition conference that was held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in early November. Papua New Guinea…

How Lily recovered from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)

Seven-year-old Lily borrowed her older sister’s clothes to wear for her last visit to the pediatric ward at the Kundiawa General Hospital in Chimbu Province where her treatment for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is being monitored. “Several weeks ago, Lily was very thin. She’s been sick for a long time. She was l...

Papua New Guinea: National Nutrition Policy 2016-2026

The problem of malnutrition continues to be a significant impediment in the health, social and economic development of Papua New Guinea (PNG).