Luanda - At least four million dollars has been earmarked for the implementation of the programme of combat to malnutrition in the country, under the "Joint Programme of Children, Food Security and Nutrition in Angola", aimed at alleviating hunger and malnutrition among children.
The programme, which is supported by UN agencies through the Fund for the Millennium Development Goals, was presented Friday in the city of Kuito, capital of central Bié province, by the Angolan minister of Health, José Van-Dunem.
Meanwhile, 12 million, of about 19.7 million inhabitants making up the Angolan population are vulnerable to food crises, and 75 percent of these people are children and women in reproduction age.
Addressing a presentation ceremony of the aforementioned programme, UNICEF's assistant representative in Angola, Amélia Russo de Sá, said that, in supporting this initiative, the United Nations intended to help eradicate hunger and reduce child mortality.
About 8,2 percent of Angolan children between 6 to59 months of age present acute malnutrition and 29,2 percent, the official added, have chronic malnutrition caused by inadequate diet, infectious disease or the combination of the two causes
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