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Breast Feeding Advocacy:

Exclusive breastfeeding rates have not improved significantly over the past decade, with only 17 percent of babies being exclusively breastfed during their first six months of life. Just 18 percent of children aged 6-23 months are fed the minimum acceptable diet. RAF provides the needed education and enlightenment in her “sweet mother project” for parents in the form of trainings and advocacy to ensure that children get the required nutrients necessary for their proper growth and development.
Breast Feeding Advocacy
Breast Feeding Advocacy

HIV and AIDS Testing, Counselling and Campaign:

RAF has strengthened hospitals and community structures to implement standardized testing protocols for HIV testing and counselling. Our approach bundles HIV tests with prevention packages and are culturally delivered with sensitivity that improves/encourages uptake, particularly for people at high risk of HIV infection and key populations.
 

Child Nutrition: 

The first 1,000 days of a child's life offer a unique window of opportunity for preventing undernutrition and its consequences. RAF targets its actions to this critical period to ensure good nutrition for every child in Nigeria.
At least 17 million Nigerian children are undernourished; stunted and/or wasted, giving Nigeria the highest burden of malnutrition in Africa and the second highest in the world. Many states in Nigeria are affected, however the states in the northern Nigeria are the most affected by the two forms of malnutrition – stunting and wasting. High rates of malnutrition pose significant public health and development challenges. Stunting, in addition to an increased risk of death, is also linked to poor cognitive development, a lowered performance in education and low productivity in adulthood.

Child birth support: According to the latest UN global estimates, 303,000 women a year die in childbirth, or as a result of complications arising from pregnancy. This equates to about 830 women dying each day – roughly one every two minutes.

About two-thirds of all maternal deaths take place in sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria and India alone account for one-third of global deaths. More than 50,000 women die during childbirth in Nigeria every year.

 

 

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Education
Economic Empowerment
Health Services
Hygiene and Sanitation
Emergency Response
Social Welfare
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