Impact of Covid-19 on community and pediatric nutrition
In a health center in Thiès, community workers give advice on nutrition to mothers during a chat.
© RFI / Ophélie Lahccen
By: Caroline Paré Follow
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For more than a year, international health efforts have focused on the Covid-19 pandemic.
However, the health crisis is accompanied by a socioeconomic crisis which can have serious consequences on health.
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Delocalized program in Dakar, Senegal
In 2020, UNICEF warned: "
6.7 million additional children under the age of 5 could suffer from wasting - and therefore be dangerously undernourished - because of the socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
".
What is the impact of the pandemic on pediatric undernutrition?
How to deal with undernutrition?
Simeon Nanama
, Nutrition Advisor for UNICEF Regional Office for West and Central Africa
Abdoulaye Ka
, Coordinator of the National Council for the Development of Nutrition (CNDN)
Dr Jean Baptiste Diouf,
pediatrician, head of the pediatric service at the King Baudouin hospital center in Guediawaye, in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal.
Secretary General of the Senegalese Pediatric Society.
A report on the treatment of undernutrition in a health center in Thiès
A program produced in partnership with the
French Muskoka Fund
which aims to reduce maternal, neonatal and infant mortality in eight French-speaking African countries.
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