Projection of interventions for the reduction of chronic malnutrition in Mozambique from 2010 to 2020
Publication year: 2019
Chronic malnutrition is a public health problem affecting mainly children under the age of five, particularly in developing countries, where about half of all deaths among children in this age group are attributed to malnutrition. The Government of Mozambique recognizes chronic malnutrition as the main nutrition problem in the country and needs a multisectoral approach to reduce it as per the Multisectoral Action Plan for the Reduction of Chronic Malnutrition (PAMRDC 2011-2015-20) and the Government’s Five-Year Program 2015-2019. The PAMRDC set a target to reduce chronic malnutrition in Mozambique by 20% in 2020 and the PQG reduced the target for 2019 to 35%.
On the other hand, the World Health Assembly (WHA) held in May 2012, set global targets for the reduction of malnutrition by the year 2025, which include a 40% reduction in the number of children with chronic malnutrition.
To inform evidence-based decision-making, several countries have been using the Lives Saved Tools (LiST) tool, which is a program that models the impact of changes in the coverage of interventions on maternal and child mortality. This abstract describes the impact of changes in the coverage of the interventions in chronic malnutrition by the year 2025.