Scaling up Nutrition in the African Region
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The World Health Assembly (WHA) was made aware that worldwide malnutrition accounts for 11% of the global burden of disease, which leads to long-term poor health and disability and poor educational and developmental outcomes. The WHA further learned that worldwide 186 million children are stunted and 20 million suffer from the most deadly form of severe acute malnutrition each year. In response to these challenges, the 63rd WHA has approved resolution 63.23, urging Member States to increase the political commitment to prevent and reduce malnutrition in all its forms, to strengthen and expedite the sustainable implementation of the global strategy for infant and young child feeding, to develop or review current policy frameworks addressing the double burden of malnutrition, to scale up interventions that improve infant and young child nutrition and to strengthen nutrition surveillance. The overall objective of the Consultation on the WHA resolution was to update partners on the nutritio n situation in Africa and to advocate to governments and partners for the implementation of the WHA resolution and discuss the preparation for the proposed International Conference on Nutrition 20 years since the first ICN was held in 1992 (ICN +20).