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Malnutrition in Nigeria

Community Health Watch

Kpakungu PHC: More Women Are Accessing Nutrition Services for Free

By Nigeria Health Watch
March 11, 2023
1 Mins read
Kpakungu Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) is situated in the Soje ‘B’ area of Kpakungu, in Minna South, Chanchaga Local Government (LGA) of…
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Torchlight

Eat-Learn-Play: Bridging the Nutrition and Education Gap for Wassa’s Displaced Children

By Nigeria Health Watch
January 30, 2023
6 Mins read
By Thelma Chioma Abeku and Ikemefuna Igwe (Lead Writers) At first glance, the buildings that house the classrooms of the Transitional Learning…
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Torchlight

For the Love of Children: Providing Low Cost Fortified Meals for Children in Kontagora Hospital

By Nigeria Health Watch
December 13, 2022
6 Mins read
By Anibe Idajili (Lead Writer) On the last day of October 2022, four women from conflict-affected communities in Niger State arrived at…
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Thought Leadership

How e Consign Me? Obesity, a Growing Concern in Nigeria

By Hadiza Mohammed
January 26, 2022
4 Mins read
When most people hear the word ‘malnutrition’, they often think, undernutrition. But malnutrition, in all its forms includes undernutrition (wasting, stunting, underweight),…
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Torchlight

Nutrition Interventions Securing Livelihoods in Hard-to-Reach Areas of Borno

By Patrick Egwu
June 29, 2021
5 Mins read
The growing insurgency in Northeast Nigeria is negatively impacting the lives and health care of residents in the region, particularly mothers and…
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Torchlight

Nourishing the future: How UNICEF is providing nutrition care in Sokoto State

By Bashar Abubakar
November 23, 2020
6 Mins read
According to the 2018 National Nutrition and Health Survey, Sokoto State is one of the four states with the highest prevalence of…
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Thought Leadership

Moving from advocacy to action in the fight against Malnutrition

By Kenneth Ibe
November 9, 2020
3 Mins read
The COVID-19 pandemic has not just exposed the fragile nature of the health systems of most developing countries, including Nigeria, but has…
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Torchlight

Partnerships for better nutrition in Kaduna State: The Alive & Thrive Model

By Nigeria Health Watch
March 16, 2020
7 Mins read
Malnutrition is a direct or underlying cause of 45% of all deaths of under-five children, and Nigeria has the second highest burden…
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Torchlight

A Different Kind of Charity; Empowering Orphanages to Fight Malnutrition in the FCT

By Chibuike Alagboso
April 16, 2019
7 Mins read
Orphanages are not uncommon in Nigeria and across different parts of the globe. The United Nations Convention on the rights of the…
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Torchlight

Nutrition agents increase demand for CMAM services in Borno

By Chibuike Alagboso
September 25, 2018
7 Mins read
No mother ever wants to face the tough choices many mothers in conflict zones, like Borno have to face on a daily…
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Torchlight

Peanuts, Millet, Beans: simple foods helping to stem Kano’s malnutrition crisis

By Bashar Abubakar
July 2, 2018
6 Mins read
Two-year-old Umar is in his mother Saratu’s arms, a playful boy. She says he was not always this healthy, and that just…
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Thought Leadership

#FeedNaijaPikin: Moving the malnutrition movement from advocacy to action

By Nigeria Health Watch
March 8, 2018
5 Mins read
Agwa; Eforiro; Acha; Ikire; Yalo; Anyara; Bitter leaf, Millet… the list is endless. No, this is not a cooking class and we…
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Torchlight

Defying the odds, one nutritious meal at a time: The Story of Yalwa

By Bashar Abubakar
February 19, 2018
8 Mins read
Sitting in a small room outside the chief’s residence in the tiny village of Yalwa in Jigawa State, a group of Fulani…
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Thought Leadership

Misery in the midst of plenty: Can knowledge undo Nigeria’s malnutrition tragedy?

By Nigeria Health Watch
November 29, 2017
7 Mins read
In September, as part of a campaign to highlight the issues around malnutrition amongst children under 5 in Nigeria, Nigeria Health Watch…
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