Reports

calls for implementation framework December 29, 2023: Plan International Nigeria, a girls’ and child rights organisation, has commended the Bauchi State House of Assembly and Governor for the passing and assent to the child rights law. The state…

Introduction and Background At the national level the burden of wasting among children under five in Nigeria has decreased from 18 percent to 7 percent between 2013 and 2015, but the current prevalence remains unacceptably high (NPC…

Executive Summary Background Management of moderate wasting (moderate acute malnutrition) is an important component of countrylevel strategies to address wasting, given the high numbers of moderately wasted children and their susceptibility to illness and death. For more than…

Introduction On estime que la sous-nutrition est à l'origine de 45 % des décès d'enfants de moins de 5 ans. Jusqu'à 12,6 % de ces décès sont dus à l'émaciation, une forme aiguë de malnutrition (Black et…

Introduction Undernutrition contributes to an estimated 45 percent of deaths of children under 5 years of age. As much as 12.6 percent of those deaths are caused by wasting, an acute form of malnutrition (Black et al.…

HIGHLIGHTS As of early December 2023, 20,725 suspected cumulative cases have been reported since December 2022, of which 12,505 cases were confirmed (60%) across 35 states (267 LGAs). Some 570 deaths have been confirmed. 99 percent of cases…

I am deeply alarmed by the series of attacks by gunmen on multiple rural communities in Plateau State, north-central Nigeria, on Christmas Eve, that left at least 150 people dead and many injured. I call on the…

HIGHLIGHTS Armed conflict in northeast Nigeria continues to adversely affect the lives and prospects of 7.7 million people, 60 per cent of them children. This is down slightly from the 8.3 million people impacted in 2022. Two…

Date: Tuesday, 19th December 2023; Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Location: Virtual (MS Teams) Chair: Ms. Fati Ali, Director Primary Health Care, Borno SPHCDA; Co-chair: John Mukisa, Nutrition Sector Coordinator, UNICEF Agenda: Topic 1 . Opening Remarks 2 . Review of Action…

SITUATION AT A GLANCE 224 MILLION Estimated Population of Nigeria UN – July 2023 8.3 MILLION Estimated Number of People in Need in Northeastern Nigeria UN – February 2023 3.6 MILLION Estimated Number of IDPs in Nigeria IOM – June 2023 26.5 MILLION…