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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.
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?
- Aissatou Dieng Lo, state midwife, reproductive health coordinator for the department of Kolda in Casamance
- Marie Tall Diopresponsible for the office of theNGO ENDA Health in Kolda
- Awa Diassydepartmental coordinator of girls’ clubs in Kolda.
Broadcast 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.