State of Nutrition in Niger:
- Ministry of Public Health
- Ministry of Population, Promotion of Women and Child Protection
- Nutrition statistics for Niger from UNICEF
SUN Activities:
- Réduire la malnutrition au Niger est possible – Niger’s presentation from the Extended SUN Workshop on September 21st, 2011 in NYC
Success Stories:
| UNICEF-supported health centres combat malnutrition in Niger | |
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The centre at Takieta is one of 822 therapeutic feeding centres located throughout Niger. In 2010, more than 318,000 children under the age of five were admitted to these centres with severe acute malnutrition. Read more… |
| A campaign to promote exclusive breastfeeding makes strides in rural Niger | |
| Story by UNICEF | |
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Ms.Yaduza and all the mothers in this village have been encouraged to practice exclusive breastfeeding as part of a campaign mounted by UNICEF and its partners. Throughout Niger, health workers and midwives in rural health posts, as well as community activists in villages, are helping to educate women on the benefits of breastmilk. Read more… |
| Face to Face With a Mother’s Pain | |
| Article by New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof | |
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The winners of my annual win-a-trip contest, Saumya Dave of Atlanta, the medical student, and Noreen Connolly, a teacher from Newark, traveled with me to a remote village here in southern Niger. We came across a young mother who was quietly starving beside her thatch-roof hut, along with her two surviving children (two others had already died). Read more… |
| The Breast Milk Cure | |
| Article by New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof | |
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What if nutritionists came up with a miracle cure for childhood malnutrition? A protein-rich substance that doesn’t require refrigeration? One that is free and is available even in remote towns like this one in Niger where babies routinely die of hunger-related causes? Impossible, you say? Actually, this miracle cure already exists. It’s breast milk. Read more… |