Category: UNICEF

• 2016 WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK MESSAGE

  Culled from WHO and UNICEF Joint Message Breastfeeding: A Key to Sustainable Development There is a reason why virtually every country around the world observes World Breastfeeding Week every year: Breastfeeding is one of the most effective — and cost-effective — ways to save and improve the lives of children everywhere, yielding lifelong health benefits…

  jaynewhyteonline

  August 6, 2016

  2016 World Breastfeeding Week Nigeria, UNICEF, WHO

• ADORABLE SIX MONTHS OLD BEATS MALNUTRITION

  Amazing what the the Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) can do to a baby. This is the photo of Falmata, a six months old baby who was diagnosed with Severe Acute Malnutrition some months back and consequently, was treated and fed with RUTF at the IDP camp in Bama, Borno state. In the second…

  jaynewhyteonline

  July 9, 2016

  Borno state, Malnutrition: a silent crisis, UNICEF

• ACCOUNTABILITY IN MATERNAL NEWBORN AND CHILD HEALTH IN NIGERIA

  It was a thing of a joy on Thursday 14th June 2012 as civil societies, health professional bodies and the media interacted about the need to have a national platform for dialogue and advocacy to ensure accountability in maternal and newborn health in Nigeria. The meeting took place at the conference hall of Valencia Hotel…

  jaynewhyteonline

  June 25, 2012

  commitment, funding, Integration of maternal health services., Misoprostol, National data, National Health Bill, Nigerian Government, NSHDP, Oxytocin, policy., UNICEF