A new global report by United Nations Children’s Fund has listed Nigeria and 11 others as 12 hardest hit countries by food and nutrition crisis. The document indicated that 7.3 million adolescent girls and women, aged 15-49, in the most populous black nation, are undernourished. Others captured in the report include Afghanistan; Burkina Faso; Chad; Ethiopia; Kenya; Mali and Niger.
Issued ahead of today’s International Women’s Day celebration, the report, titled, ‘Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women’, warned that ongoing crises, aggravated by unending gender inequality, were deepening a nutrition disaster among adolescent girls and women that had already shown little improvement in the last two decades.
The document noted that 55 per cent of adolescent girls and women in Nigeria suffer from anaemia, while nearly half of Nigerian women of reproductive age do not consume recommended diets of at least five of 10 food groups , according to the 2022 National Food Consumption and Micronutrient Survey. “To prevent under-nutrition in children, we must also address malnutrition in adolescent girls and women,” she appealed.
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