Stakeholders worried as malnutrition funding ceases

Stakeholders have expressed worry over the sustainability of the intervention for the prevention of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) affecting Nigerian children.

The view was expressed at a two-day advocacy training organised by International Society of Media in Public Health (ISMPH) in conjunction with Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center (CISLAC), Network for Health Equity and Development (NHED) and the Aisha Buhari Foundation (ABF).

The training was aimed at equipping journalists and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on the menace of SAM as a child killer epidemic.

Addressing participants, an official of ISMPH, Mr. Solomon Dogo, who represented its Executive Director, Moji Makanjuola, said

ISMPH and other partners organised the training to strengthen the role the media could play in holding policy makers accountable to support SAM prevention and treatment.

The representative of Aisha Buhari Foundation (ABF), Haruna Suleman, called on the participants to contribute in the fight against SAM through sustained reportage of nutritional issues as well as advocacy for prompt release of budgetary allocations on health related activities.