Health – Socio-Economic Research and Development Centre

Health

PROTECT NIGERIA’S FUTURE: HALT CHILD UNDER – NUTRITION

Nigeria has one of the highest burdens of under-nutrition in Africa and globally. Under-nutrition may manifest as stunting when a child is too short for age, wasting when a child is too thin for height, underweight when a child is too thin for age, or present as vitamin and mineral deficiencies – often referred to as “hidden hunger”.

Vote4WASH Electoral campaign in Niger State, Nigeria

In 2015 the world committed to a global vision to universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene with the SDGs aiming and targeting that by 2030 open defecation is eradicated, universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in homes, schools and health centres becomes a reality, reduction in percentage of the population without access to safe drinking water and sanitation and disproportion in access to basic WASH services are gradually removed.