1. Women’s nutrition: Foundation to achieving the WHA global targets for 2025
Sixth Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security
Kampala, Uganda – 28 to 30 October 2015
Dr Adelheid W. Onyango

2. World Health Assembly Global Nutrition Targets

3. First 1000 days begin with maternal health and wellbeing
Maternal correlates of child malnutrition
Poor nutrition during pre-conception, pregnancy and lactation
Short stature
Infection
Adolescent pregnancy
Mental health
Short birth spacing
Hypertension

4. Maternal nutrition indicators
Who’s affected
Associated risks
Maternal BMI <18.5
Short stature (<145 cm)
>20% in SSA and South Asia (40% in Bangladesh, Eritrea, India)
>10% in South-central Asia
Poor fetal growth and development
Obstetric complications
BMI >30 (obesity)
Increasing globally
Complications in pregnancy
High BW and risk of obesity in children
Iron-deficiency anemia
29% WRA (496 million)
38% pregnant women (32.4 million)
South Asia and Central & West Africa
Reduced birth weight
Higher risk of perinatal and maternal mortality

5. Adolescent girls: school attendance and childbearing
UNICEF: State of the World’s Children – 2015

6. Adolescent childbearing: risks
Social status compromised (school dropout, dependency and poverty) – disempowerment
Health and nutrition risks for still-growing pregnant girls
Adolescence is the age group with highest prevalence of anaemia
High risk of low birth weight babies
Adolescents are less likely than older mothers to breastfeed or to receive support
Ill-equipped to nurture their infants and make the right choices on IYCF

7. World Health Assembly Global Nutrition Targets

8. Mwebale! Thank You! Merci!!