Ethiopian progress towards achieving the global nutrition targets of 2025: analysis of sub-national trends and progress inequalities.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The World Health Assembly (WHA) developed six global nutrition targets that focus on child and maternal nutrition. The progress made by individual countries is available as a yearly global nutrition report. However, reporting the national progress might mask important sub-national differences. This study aimed to measure the progress of the 11 regions of Ethiopia towards achieving the 2025 WHA targets using average annual reduction rates (AARR).

Results

Ethiopia is off-track in meeting the five global nutrition targets studied. The national AARR of stunting is 2.3 against a target of 5.3, for wasting the current AARR is 3.1 against a target of 5.3. The AARR of non-exclusive breastfeeding was 2.1 close to the target of 2.7. Anemia in women of reproductive age incre

SUBMITTER: Amaha ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7726871 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature