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COVID-19-induced disruptions of school feeding services exacerbate food insecurity in Nigeria

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The Journal of Nutrition Abay, K. A., Amare, M., Tiberti, L., Andam, K. S. 2021-5-24
Article on the impact of COVID-19-induced disruption of school feeding services on household food security in Nigeria. Household-level, pre-COVID-19 in-person survey data were combined with post-pandemic phone survey data, along with local government area (LGA)–level information on access to school ...
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Health systems resilience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from 28 countries

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Nature Haldane, V., Foo, C., Abdalla, S., Jung, A., Tan, M., Wu, S., Chua, A., Verma, M., Shreshta, P., Singh, S., Perez, T., Tan, S., Bartos, M., Mabuchi, S., Bonk, M, McNab, C., Werner, G., Panjabi, R., Nordstrom, A., Legido-Quigley, H. 2021-05-17
Article on domains addressing governance and financing, health workforce, medical products and technologies, public health functions, health service delivery and community engagement to prevent and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Four salient elements that underlie highly effective national responses and ...
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Recent patterns of stunting and wasting in Venezuelan children: Programming implications for a protracted crisis

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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Raffalli, S. , Villalobos, C. 2021-5-13
Article on the patterns of wasting and stunting and their concurrence among vulnerable Venezuelan children. An analysis was done of 46,462 anthropometric records captured by Caritas Venezuela between 2017 and 2019 and relating to children under 5 years old in ...
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COVID-19: Missing more than a classroom: The impact of school closures on children’s nutrition

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UN-iLibrary UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Borkowski, A., Correa, J., Bundy, D., Burbano, C., Hayashi, C., Lloyd- Evans, E., Neitzel, J., Reuge, N. 2021-5-13
Article on the evidence on the potential negative short-term and long-term effects of school meal scheme disruption during Covid-19 globally. It showed how vulnerable the children participating in these schemes are, how coping and mitigation measures are often only short-term ...
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Liberia: How reinforced community health structures and capitalizing on lessons learned from the Ebola virus epidemic of 2014-16 helped the country respond to the challenge of its second major disease outbreak in five years

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WHO WHO, 2021-5-12
Report on Liberia's reinforced community health structures and lessons learned from other diseases helped the country to respond to major disease outbreak in 2014-2016. A few months before the coronavirus crisis, a midterm self-assessment was carried out in August 2019 ...
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Asia and the Pacific regional overview of food security and nutrition 2022: Urban food systems and nutrition – Launch recording, Key messages & Full report

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2023-01-24
Press release on the launch and key messages of the fifth annual Asia-Pacific regional SOFI report. The report’s highlights capture the challenges and system-level determinants of unhealthy diets in urban areas, both regarding undernutrition and overweight. It presents, among others, data on food security and affordability and the state of progress on achieving the global nutrition targets. The findings profile various urban environments, interventions, experiences, and opportunities to innovate at multiple levels to transform urban areas into sustainable cities. A link to the report's virtual launch event is available including the recording, key messages, and full report. View Source

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on diets, nutrition services & nutrition practices in UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR): Evidence from remote surveys

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2023-01-01
Report on the impact of the COVID pandemic on diets, services, and practices in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. The report presents findings from remote surveys in six ESAR countries with data on breastfeeding, diet diversity, food consumption and insecurity, drivers of dietary changes, and disruptions to nutrition services. The survey provides important learning for the future use of remote methods for collecting nutrition data. Technical brief, pull report, and six country briefs are available. View Source

Economic shocks predict increases in child wasting prevalence

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2022-04-20
Article on the impact of severe negative economic shock on child acute malnutrition (wasting), a major risk factor for under-5 mortality. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) macroeconomic volatility is common, and severe negative economic shocks can substantially increase poverty and food insecurity. Less well understood are the implications of these contractions for child wasting. This study explores the nutritional impacts of economic growth shocks over 1990–2018 by linking wasting outcomes collected for 1.256 million children from 52 countries to lagged annual changes in economic growth. Estimates suggest that a 10% annual decline in national income increases moderate/severe wasting prevalence by 14.4–17.8%. An exploration of possible mechanisms suggests negative economic shocks may increase risks of inadequate dietary diversity among children. Applying these results to the latest economic growth estimates for 2020 suggests that COVID-19 could put an additional 9.4 million preschoolers at risk of wasting, net of the effects of preventative policy actions. View Source