United Nations Children’s Fund

Death looms over 2.2M severely malnourished children in northern Nigeria

Children line up for food (courtesy National Mirror)
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Without urgent intervention, about 2.2 million severe acute malnourished children in northern Nigeria will die due to inadequate Ready To Use Food Therapy (RUTF) at treatment sites.
 

Over 2.2m children suffer severe malnutrition in Northern Nigeria * Govts urged to make budgetary allocation for nutrition

Monday, November 28, 2016

With over 2.2 million children are threatened by malnutrition in the Northern part of Nigeria, the federal, state and local governments have been urged to give special attention to nutrition in the 2017 budgetary allocation so as to scale up infant and young children feeding practices and micro-nutrients deficiency.