SUPPORT US TO ADDRESS POOR NUTRITION AMONG WOMEN AND ADOLESCENT GIRLS.
Malnutrition poses a variety of threats to women and girls. It weakens women's ability to survive childbirth, makes them more susceptible to infections, and leaves them with fewer reserves to recover from illness. HIV-infected mothers who are malnourished may be more likely to transmit the virus to their infants and to experience a more rapid transition from HIV to full-blown AIDS. Malnutrition undermines women's productivity, capacity to generate income, and ability to care for their families.
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Addressing women's malnutrition has a range of positive effects....
because healthy women can fulfill their multiple roles — generating income, ensuring their families' nutrition, and having healthy children — more effectively and thereby help advance countries' socioeconomic development. Women are often responsible for producing and preparing food for the household, so their knowledge — or lack thereof — about nutrition can affect the health and nutritional status of the entire family. Promoting greater gender equality, including increasing women's control over resources and their ability to make decisions, is crucial. |
Improving women's nutrition can also help nations achieve three of the Millennium Development Goals, which are commonly accepted as a framework for measuring development progress .This brief discusses the importance of improving women's nutrition and suggests policy options for achieving positive change.
What We want to do to improve nutrition.
What We want to do to improve nutrition.
- Educate the community about the effects of malnutrition
- Promoting greater gender equality, including increasing women's control over resources and their ability to make decisions.
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