Health priority
nutrition in adolescence
The Kolda girls' club in Senegal © RFI / Victor UHL
By: Caroline Paré Follow
1 min
While the actions to fight against undernutrition most frequently highlighted are those targeting young children and future mothers, today we suggest that you focus on the specific awareness of adolescents.
The young generation, caught between the influence of industrialized countries and financial vulnerability aggravated by the COVID crisis, is faced with the combined problems of malnutrition and/or undernutrition.
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The specific needs of adolescents require particular dietary intakes.
Do they develop deficiencies specific to this period of their development?
How has their diet evolved?
How to specifically target this young audience?
What are nutrition education initiatives?
Aïssatou Dieng Lo,
State midwife, reproductive health coordinator for the department of Kolda in Casamance
Marie Tall Diop
, head of the
ENDA Santé NGO
office in Kolda
Awa Diassy
, departmental coordinator of girls' clubs in Kolda.
Issue relocated to Kolda, Casamance, Senegal.
The
French Muskoka Fund
works to improve the health and well-being of women, newborns, children and adolescents by strengthening health systems by mobilizing the complementary expertise of four United Nations agencies
:
WHO
,
UN Women
,
UNFPA
and
UNICEF.
The French Muskoka Fund operates in nine West and Central African countries.
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