The programme benefits over 2 million students from various educational levels, and supports over 27,000 individuals, including Islamic boarding school students, special school students, toddlers, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers.
Indonesia is using the Electronic Community-Based Nutrition Recording and Reporting Application (EPP-GBM) for triangulation to support stunting prevention efforts in the country, reported Antara news agency.
The rates of stunting and underweight among children aged under five in ethnic groups in Vietnam remain at 31.4% and 21% respectively, according to the National Institute of Nutrition.
The Vietnam Soymilk Study Motivation Foundation kicked off a programme themed “Balanced Nutrition for Future Generations" in 2023 in the Mekong Delta Province of Soc Trang on October 25 to provide free milk to local students.
"Vietnam is facing a triple burden of nutrition, including stunting, overweight, obesity and micronutrient deficiency,” Rana Flowers, UNICEF and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN representative in Vietnam, told a conference held in Hanoi on April 15 for the release of the main findings of the National General Nutrition Survey for 2019 – 2020.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the Vietnam Health Programme to improve the well-being, stature, longevity and life quality of Vietnamese people.
Nearly a year after starting a programme to train rural women in nutrition, taking care of themselves and their families, and gradually improving their income, Nestle Vietnam plans to expand it to more localities.
Various photos portraying the importance of breastfeeding are on display at the Vietnamese Women’s Museum in Hanoi to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week.
The food security component of the Spanish Government-funded integrated nutrition and food security project has produced positive results in dealing with malnutrition in under-5 children and ensuring food security.
It is accepted by everyone that children need plenty of regular physical exercise, but parents in major cities are not doing enough to ensure this, experts say.
The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has carried out a project on enhancing nutrition for mothers and children in a bid to improve the population quality.
Mothers having under 2 year-old children in rural areas in the northern mountainous provinces of Thai Nguyen and Bac Giang have benefited from a nutrition communications project launched in 2014.
As many as 23,000 primary pupils will benefit from a nutrition programme launched by the Study Encouragement Fund of the Vietnam Soya Products Company (Vinasoy) during the first semester of 2016-2017
The average height of Vietnamese young people is 1.644 metres for men and 1.534 for women, increasing by only 1-1.5 centimetres than that of a decade ago.
Cho Ray hospital and the Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) signed a strategic cooperation agreement for a nutritional consultation programme in Ho Chi Minh City on February 26.
The Health Ministry has unveiled its 2016-2020 action plan on mothers and children health care with a focus on narrowing down the gap among different areas across the nation.
