MeCAM, partners sensitise Nigerians about malnutrition

The Media Centre Against child Malnutrition (MeCAM) is partnering with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Scale-up Nutrition Business Network (SBN), to boost information sharing on nutrition in Nigeria.

The partnership is sequel to the forthcoming MeCAM Nutrition Symposium scheduled to hold August 4, 2017, in Lagos, themed: “Malnutrition, Child Development and the Media.”

The National Coordinator, MeCAM, Mr. Remmy Nweke, in  a statement, said the partnership would go a long way in scaling up media participation in the crusade towards improving fortunes of the nutrition status of Nigerians.

Specifically, he said that the partnership would benefit child development and the role of media, in a developing economy like Nigeria and beckoned on other stakeholders to emulate GAIN by partnering with MeCAM.

Nweke, who doubles as the Group Executive Editor at DigitalSENSE Africa Media, also said at the forthcoming Nutrition Symposium would see to the leadership of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Scale-up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) taking discussion on “Communicating Nutrition Messages to Stakeholders: Role of the Media.”

The GAIN and SBN team, he confirmed, would be led by Country Team Lead at GAIN and coordinator of SBN Nigeria, Uduak Igbeka, and would dwell on the sub-theme with expertise and dispatch, alongside other experts with vast experiences on the subject matter.

Nweke said MeCAM is resolute to draw public attention to the threat  malnutrition poses to the future of the country, and  to correct the impression that the menace is restricted to the poor.

He emphasised that UNICEF had estimated, at least 2.5m Nigerian children suffer from acute malnutrition (SAM), thus posing the danger of many of them being at risk of death unless properly treated and of course with right information.

This situation, he said, represents clear and is dangerous to the socioeconomic wellbeing of the entire country.

MeCAM consists exclusively of journalists, and mediapreneurs to push the narratives to save the Nigerian child from the danger of malnutrition through scaling up reporting and advocacy, among others

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