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Roos Verstraeten, Dieynab Diatta, Lieven Huybregts, Jef Leroy, and Elodie Becquey Wasting and wasting management Globally, 49 million children under the age of five suffer from wasting (1). Child wasting dramatically increases the risk of death, killing 875,000 under-fives annually (2). All member states of the World Health Assembly (WHA) agreed to reduce and maintain…

Transform Nutrition West Africa have recently presented work that aimed to shed light on the trends in research and identify gaps in knowledge on adolescent nutrition in the region. To further develop this Jiwani et al.  recently published an article on the Trends and inequalities in the nutritional status of adolescent girls and adult women…

By Roos Verstraeten The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown measures have not only caused a global health crisis but also an economic crisis, which together have had an impact on food security and malnutrition globally. Estimates showed that the pandemic could push 148 million people into extreme poverty this year, representing an increase of…

  The Call To Action to invest in the data value chain for nutrition in West Africa, developed by participants in the Together for Nutrition: West African Data Forum has now been endorsed by WAHO. They state “WAHO supports this Call To Action, which is consistent with the strategic aims of the ECOWAS Regional Nutrition…