Malnutrition – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com Breaking News, Nigeria News and Top Stories Sat, 29 Jun 2024 18:41:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cropped-The-InfoStride-Favicon-150x150.png Malnutrition – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com 32 32 Bipartisan Efforts to Combat Malnutrition in Northern Nigeria Highlighted at Policy Dialogue https://www.theinfostride.com/bipartisan-efforts-to-combat-malnutrition-in-northern-nigeria-highlighted-at-policy-dialogue/ https://www.theinfostride.com/bipartisan-efforts-to-combat-malnutrition-in-northern-nigeria-highlighted-at-policy-dialogue/#respond Sat, 29 Jun 2024 12:00:35 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=382021 In a landmark moment of bipartisan, national, and sub-national cooperation, the Athena Centre for Policy and Leadership, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health, has brought critical focus to the escalating issue of malnutrition in Northern Nigeria. At a policy dialogue organized by the Athena Centre, held at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja on Thursday, [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/bipartisan-efforts-to-combat-malnutrition-in-northern-nigeria-highlighted-at-policy-dialogue/feed/ 0 Dangote unveils therapeutic food factory in Kano https://www.theinfostride.com/dangote-unveils-therapeutic-food-factory-in-kano/ https://www.theinfostride.com/dangote-unveils-therapeutic-food-factory-in-kano/#respond Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:29:46 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=320152 President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, yesterday, promised to go into an agreement with states, local governments and indigenous producers of Nutri-K’s Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to guarantee adequate supply directly to primary healthcare centres that treat severe and acute malnutrition (SAM) on a sustainable basis. He stated this at the inauguration of a factory [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/dangote-unveils-therapeutic-food-factory-in-kano/feed/ 0 Infant Mortality Rate: Malnutrition responsible for Half of the Deaths in Nigeria https://www.theinfostride.com/infant-mortality-rate-malnutrition-responsible-for-half-of-the-deaths-in-nigeria/ Sun, 13 Aug 2017 15:06:02 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=177970 The Head of Nutrition Division at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Chris Isokpunkwu disclosed that more than half of the close to one million children under five that die in Nigeria annually, died as a result of malnutrition. Dr. Chris Isokpunkwu stated this during a one day dissemination meeting of budget analysis of 2016/2017 [...]

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]]> 240 Displaced Kids Die Of Malnutrition In Borno State https://www.theinfostride.com/240-displaced-kids-die-of-malnutrition-in-borno-state/ Tue, 11 Jul 2017 02:33:00 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=171629 A humanitarian aid group, Doctors Without Border (MSF), on Monday said a total of 240 displaced children had died of malnutrition in Borno in the last five months. The MSF’s Emergency Officer, Mr Moctar Abari, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Maiduguri. Abari said that the cases were recorded [...]

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]]> Kaduna State Set To Mobilise Indigenes Against Malnutrition https://www.theinfostride.com/kaduna-state-set-to-mobilise-indigenes-against-malnutrition/ Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:43:04 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=169076 The Kaduna State Government said on Wednesday that it would partner the Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) to mobilise women against malnutrition in the state. The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Hafsat Baba, said this when Mr Silas Ideva, CS-SUNN Coordinator and other members of the organisation visited her in [...]

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