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This report highlights the disproportionate impact of climate change on children in Africa, a region that has contributed minimally to global carbon emissions. It also shows that...
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UNICEF Regional Offices in Eastern and Southern Africa and in Western and Central Africa jointly commissioned an assessment of Gender-transformative approaches and promising practices in Health, Nutrition, and HIV programming...
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This study analyzes the impact of malnutrition on infant mortality and life expectancy in a sample of 36 African countries during the 2003–2018 period.
The economic implications of...
This book provides an evaluation of measures to reduce exposure to highly toxic and carcinogenic contaminants in staple diets in Africa as well as parts of Asia and Latin America. Many of the poorest...
Child undernutrition, a form of malnutrition, is a major public health burden in developing countries. Supplementation interventions targeting the major micronutrient deficiencies have only reduced the burden...
Child labour in agriculture remains a global concern. Agriculture is the sector where most child labour is found. Employment of children mostly relates to farm household poverty...
Childhood undernutrition manifests itself in various ways including stunting, wasting, underweight, and micronutrient deficiencies. Stunting (being too short for the child’s age) captures a state...
The Transform Nutrition West Africa project is a regional platform that aims to improve and support policy and program decisions and actions to accelerate reductions in maternal and child undernutrition through...
The double burden of malnutrition in children is a serious global public health problem, as upwards of 155 million children have stunted growth, 52 million show wasting...