INTERVIEW: Why Nigeria should invest more to save millions of children from malnutrition -- Country Director, Gates Foundation

The Government of Nigeria has recognised nutrition as a key priority with strong policy support reflected through the National Policy on Food and Nutrition, the Agricultural Sector Food Security and Nutrition Strategy and the Health Sector National Strategic Plan for Nutrition.

PT: Nigeria was recently crowned with the unenviable position of the highest contributor to deaths of under 5 all over the world after the country surpassed India, according to UNICEF’s latest figures. With this in mind, what are the foreseeable challenges of tackling deaths among under 5s in Nigeria, and in what areas will the foundation want to come in?

We are engaging with the government, donors, and key implementing partners to support critical and high impact interventions to address key drivers of under-five mortality. Through our grantees, we are providing technical assistance to the government at both federal and state-level to accelerate the scale-up of global best practice interventions against key drivers of mortality such as malnutrition, diarrhea, malaria, and vaccine-preventable disease .

While some countries have seen changes in their level of support from wealthier governments, we have also seen significant collaboration around funding for secure health systems such as the Gavi replenishment earlier this year which raised over $8 billion. COVID-19 needs to be the catalyst for increased support for strong health systems across the world. This is a shared global crisis that demands a shared global response because COVID anywhere is COVID everywhere.

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