NEW UN INITIATIVE SEEKS TO GIVE CHILDREN BETTER START BY BOOSTING NUTRITION FOR MOTHERS

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Date: 7 Jun 2013 14:00:01 -0400
Subject: NEW UN INITIATIVE SEEKS TO GIVE CHILDREN BETTER START BY
BOOSTING NUTRITION FOR MOTHERS
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NEW UN INITIATIVE SEEKS TO GIVE CHILDREN BETTER START BY BOOSTING
NUTRITION FOR MOTHERSNew York, Jun 7 2013 2:00PMTwo United Nations
agencies are launching a new partnership to improve nutrition among
pregnant and breastfeeding women to ensure that children get a good
start toward a healthy and productive life.

The new initiative, from the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN
Population Fund (UNFPA), aims to reduce the number of low birth weight
babies and stunted children, who, as a result, grow up plagued by
health problems and experience a detrimental impact on their learning
and economic potential.

"When a mother consumes a nutritious and balanced diet before and
after giving birth, her baby thrives," WFP Executive Director Ertharin
Cousin said in a
<"http://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/feeding-mothers-saving-lives-and-nourishing-next-generation">news
release. "Providing women, particularly adolescent girls, with access
to nutritious food cements the next generation's opportunity for a
healthy and productive future."

The partnership supports the "1,000 Days" initiative, which focuses on
improving nutrition in the first 1,000 days between the start of
woman's pregnancy and her child's second birthday.

"As the global community enters a final push to achieve the MDGs,
maternal health remains the goal that lags furthest behind," said
UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin, referring to the set of
global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals
that world leaders have pledged to achieve by 2015.

"Maternal nutrition can play an essential role to improve pregnancy
outcomes for both the mother and her newborn child," he noted.
"Evidence suggests that programmes designed to improve access to
healthy foods and support positive eating behaviour amongst young
women can decrease maternal and child mortality, and also provide
adolescents energy and strength to stay in school and better prepare
them to enter the workforce."

The agencies are planning to roll out pilot programmes in Burkina
Faso, Sierra Leone and Zambia, where they will focus on improving
nutrition among women prior to, during and after pregnancy, continuing
until the child reaches 6 months of age.

At the same time, the new programme will explore ways of providing
adolescent girls with more general nutritional support, which is
essential, the agencies stated, to empower them, allowing them to make
healthy reproductive choices, stay in school and avoid early marriage.

The new partnership is being launched ahead of tomorrow's "Nutrition
for Growth" summit in London which aims to address the nutritional
needs of women throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding.Jun 7 2013
2:00PM
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